WTO FOOD TALKS CHAIRMAN SAYS US MUST CUT FOOD SUBSIDIES
June 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHAIRMAN of the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) Doha Development Round has said the USA must reduce food production subsidies to secure agreement in the global commerce talks. Crawford Falconer said: "It is frankly inconceivable that the US will come out of this negotiation with an entitlement to spend more" than the US$19 billion currently allowed annually. Meanwhile, hopes a new French president would reverse France's stubborn negotiating position at the talks over maintaining subsidies have been dashed. Nicolas Sarkozy told French ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.