WTO TALKS LATEST
December 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER countries of the World Trade Organisation have sought to exploit the deal struck in Doha, Qatar, to strive for more comprehensive liberalisation in the ongoing agricultural round than has so far been discussed. At an informal meeting of the food trade talks, meat exporter Australia has been calling for an end to trade preferences favouring exports from developing countries, claiming that they encourage them to be dependent on a small range of uncompetitive products.
MEMBER countries of the World Trade Organisation have sought to exploit the deal struck in Doha, Qatar, to strive for more comprehensive liberalisation in the ongoing agricultural round than has so far been discussed. At an informal meeting of the food trade talks, meat exporter Australia has been calling for an end to trade preferences favouring exports from developing countries, claiming that they encourage them to be dependent on a small range of uncompetitive products.
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