WTO ROUND TO SLASH – EVEN REMOVE – TEXTILE AND CLOTHING IMPORT DUTIES WORLDWIDE
February 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is a curious quirk of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that it considers fish and fish products to be industrial goods, while almost anything else edible is regulated as the fruit of agriculture - but this anomaly may help the fishing sector this year.
The WTO's seven-year-old Doha Development Round is planning the final phase of its negotiations, which would slash many import duties on fish traded worldwide and maybe eliminate some altogether.
That is the ambition of the round's market access for non-agricultural products (or NAMA) talks, ...
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