Undue haste
that the us is in a hurry to sell its environmental goods was evident at the special session of the World Trade Organization's (wto) Committee on Trade and Environment (cte). The meeting was held in Geneva on April 19.
The us has, in fact, evinced a keen interest in speeding up negotiations on a set of goods that are beneficial to its economy ever since wto's Cancun deliberations in September 2003. In July 2003, it had proposed that environmental goods be delineated in two categories: a core list of goods that everyone agrees to be