Must do list for agriculture negotiations
Next week will see the first serious attempt by WTO officials and cabinet-level negotiators to draft decisions by the Hong Kong Ministerial Confer...
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Europe’s revised offer on agriculture ‘inadequate’
The EC Commission’s offer increases the cut in import duties in the higher ranges, offers a smaller variable cut in import duties in the lower ranges and r...
Testing le d’fi fran’ais on Agriculture
According to press reports Mr Chirac told the EU Summit meeting in Hampton Court, England, that France would ‘veto’ a Doha round agreement on Agricultur...
High drama and low politics
There is a breathless quality to media reports on the maneuvers of governments trying to meet the WTO’s self-imposed deadline of 31 October for signs o...
A couple more inches in the agriculture negotiations
There has been some better definition of proposals—perhaps the start of some convergence on an agreement—in the crucial talks on Agriculture in the Do...
Review of “Global Trade Advocate” in FT
Alan Beattie, the World Trade Editor for the Financial Times has reviewed Global Trade Advocate. Here’s a link to the non-subscription page version of t...
The thunderer lets fly
The NY Times blasts trans-Atlantic trade policies: “Listening to these two [EU and USA] economic powerhouses snipe about who should be doing what is rev...