COTTON SUBSIDIES – WTO
June 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLA CALL has been made at the World Trade Organisation for this September's summit in Cancún, Mexico, to agree to compensate least developed countries for the economic pain wreaked on their cotton producers by subsides paid out in rich developed countries. Speaking at the WTO's trade negotiations committee, President Blaise Compaore, of Burkina Faso, called for the summit to agree a timetable to reduce and finally abolish cotton subsidies worldwide. Speaking on behalf of other western and central African nations, he claimed that for the 2001 ...
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