WTO DOHA TRADE TALKS REOPENED
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE WORLD Trade Organisation's (WTO) Doha Development Round liberalisation talks have been re-launched, following informal agreement by trade ministers on how to proceed. They have decided to change tack and focus on agreeing duty cuts to individual products, before setting an overall cut for food and industrial tariffs and subsidies. The aim would be to create enough negotiating carrots to encourage a final push for a deal later this year. This would especially focus on packaged food products, although non-food industrial goods trades would also ...
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