INTERNATIONAL NEWS ROUND UP
November 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE WORLD Trade Organisation has launched a general round at its summit in Qatar, which will include negotiations on liberalising export and import regimes for so-called industrial goods such as fish.These talks have a final deadline of 2005 and, said the meeting's communiqué, will try "to reduce or as appropriate eliminate tariffs, including the reduction or elimination of tariff peaks, high tariffs, and tariff escalation, as well as non-tariff barriers, in particular on products of export interest to developing countries."Ministers agreed that ...
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