WTO NEGOTIATORS PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE FINAL ROUND OF TALKS
August 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiators return to Geneva this month (Geneva) with the aim of ending the long-running WTO Doha Development Round food liberalisation food talks by December. Diplomats and expert officials will discuss line-by-line proposals released in late July by food and drink talks chairman Crawford Falconer. He has tabled formulas for cutting tariffs and trade-distorting production subsidies. Falconer has proposed the EU cuts handouts by 75% or 85%; the US and Japan 66% or 73%; and other countries 50% or 60%. As for ...
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