ATTEMPTS TO RESTART WTO TALKS FAIL
September 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) boss Pascal Lamy has fruitlessly been encouraging governments to restart and conclude the suspended Doha Development Round. He asked key WTO members to engage "in some political heavy lifting...at home" to persuade food producers that subsidy and duty cuts are in their interest. However, his calls came as European Union (EU) trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson rejected an Australian compromise proposal to relaunch the talks. It had suggested the EU agrees cutting its average food tariffs by 5%; the US ...
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