WTO TALKS COLLAPSE EU BLAMES USA
July 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation's (WTO) Doha round food trade talks collapsed today, with diplomats floundering about how to recover from damaging political deadlock. European Union (EU) trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has bluntly blamed the Americans for refusing to yield on reducing farm production subsidies. Following a fruitless meeting of the key G6 group at the WTO (the US, the EU, Japan, Brazil, India and Australia), Mandelson said: "The United States was unwilling to accept, or indeed to acknowledge, the flexibility being shown by ...
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