WTO DOHA DEVELOPMENT ROUND HONG KONG SUMMIT DAY 3 – COTTON SUBSIDIES MANDELSON
December 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HIGHLY undiplomatic exchanges between the European Union (EU) and the United States over the vexed question of cotton subsidies have threatened to obstruct agreement at the already tough parallel talks on general agricultural liberalisation at the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) Hong Kong summit. On day three of the meeting, Peter Mandelson, the EU's trade Commissioner accused the US of tying an offer to reduce cotton payments to Brussels "meeting their demands on agricultural market access". This, said Mandelson, "takes tactical ...
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