LAMY – AFRICA
July 1st, 2004
KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy has called on African countries and the USA to swiftly agree a package of reforms to global commerce and subsidies in cotton production, within the scope of the World Trade Organisation's Doha development round. Lamy pushed the EU's proposals for eliminating the most trade-distorting forms of domestic support, scrapping export subsidies and full market openings for least developed country cotton at an EU-Africa cotton forum, in Paris.
EUROPEAN Union (EU) trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy has called on African countries and the USA to swiftly agree a package of reforms to global commerce and subsidies in cotton production, within the scope of the World Trade Organisation's Doha development round. Lamy pushed the EU's proposals for eliminating the most trade-distorting forms of domestic support, scrapping export subsidies and full market openings for least developed country cotton at an EU-Africa cotton forum, in Paris.
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