CANCUN SUMMIT PRE-FEATURE
August 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLANTI-GLOBALISATION activists will not like it, but there are clear signs that September's World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun might deliver what has eluded political leaders since the WTO's agricultural liberalisation talks began in 2000: the beginnings of a deal.It is the talk of the corridors at the WTO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland: the United States and the European Union have released a skeleton agreement over the goals of these long negotiations. Their paper proposed substantial cuts in trade distorting subsidies, recognising - ...
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