(Reuters) - World Trade Organization members face a somber Easter on Sunday because of a fight over manufacturing trade between the United States and major emerging economies like China, India and Brazil that could finally kill 10-year-old world trade talks.   WTO Director General Pascal Lamy, in a note accompanying new WTO negotiating documents on Thursday, said differences between countries over how much to cut manufactured goods tariffs were "unbridgeable."

WASHINGTON, DC, April 22, 2011 - World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is applauding the strong language in a long-awaited report that a key World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiating body released today, which underscores the urgent need to halt government-subsidized overfishing.

NEW DELHI, April 22 (Xinhua) -- The Indian Commerce Ministry will soon launch a study to assess the trade benefits from several bilateral agreements that the country has entered into, local media reported Friday. The move comes after the economic survey in February pointed out that some of the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) could result in "much more" benefits to partner countries and the gains for India would be "small or negative," The Indian Express newspaper quoted unnamed official sources as saying.

The Vietnamese government expects earnings from coffee shipments to reach $2.6 billion this year, up 30 percent from an initial estimate of $2 billion for the year The Vietnamese government expects earnings from coffee shipments to reach $2.6 billion this year, up 30 percent from an initial estimate of $2 billion for the year as prices rose in global markets, Thoi Bao Kinh Te newspaper reported, citing the agricultural ministry’s forecast.

According to the General Administration of Customs, as many as 5,727 cars were imported in March 2011, worth US$115.5 million. Compared to last month, the car imports showed a 53.3% increase in volume and 92.3% in value. During the first quarter of this year, Vietnamese companies imported a total 15,493 cars, an increase of 62.6% in volume. The import value was worth nearly $278 million, a 72% increase compared to the same period last year.

With deadlines fast approaching, the head of the World Trade Organization has warned that narrow vested interests threaten to scupper the conclusion of the Doha Round, thus weakening the WTO system and proving detrimental to developing countries. The WTO's self-imposed deadline for the production of new draft texts for the Round had been set for April 21, the last day before the Easter Recess. As this date approached, world leaders and influential economists came out in force to reflect on the dangers failure would have for world trade.

BEIJING, April 21 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Commerce said Thursday that it will impose anti-dumping duties on imports of optical fiber from the United States and the European Union. The duties will go into effect on April 22. The duty rates, ranging from 4.7 percent to 29.1 percent, depend on the dumping margin, or the difference between the average value of the product in the product's country of origin and its export price, the ministry said in a final ruling. The measure will remain in place for five years, according to the ministry.

GENEVA - The head of the World Trade Organization is hoping confessions will lead to concessions, which in turn may salvage the ailing Doha Round of trade liberalization talks that have been locked in limbo for almost a decade. Pascal Lamy received diplomats at hourly intervals Wednesday in an effort to hear all 153 member countries' views ahead of the Easter break and a grand plenary meeting in Geneva on April 29, when negotiators are expected to declare whether a Doha deal is still doable.

WASHINGTON — The White House announced on Tuesday thatPanama had satisfied a final condition for a free-trade pact with the United States, smoothing the way for President Obama to seek Congressional approval for three trade agreements inherited from the Bush

New Delhi, Apr 20 (PTI) India has imposed anti-dumping duty of up to USD 94.96 per tonne on imports of a chemical used in manufacture of alcohol and rubber, from Japan and Thailand to protect domestic players. The restrictive duty on import of glass fibre would be imposed for a period of five years, the Department of Revenue said. The duty would range between USD 94.96 per tonne to 85.85 per tonne on the imports of acetone from these two countries, it said.