WTO NEGOTIATIONS PUSH

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has released proposals to liberalise the global cotton trade, aimed at helping to restart the World Trade Organisation's Doha Development Round, following September's inconclusive summit at Cancun, Mexico. Brussels has promised to offer an end to its export subsidies for European Union cotton producers and also to push for a specific implementation timetable to be agreed during the talks for scrapping such payments worldwide. The Commission added said it would make additional proposals that international organisations ...


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