First responses to the Cairns Group’s proposal to curb trade-distorting domestic farm support, there were negative responses of varying degrees from China, the EU and the US.
(“Special sessions” is secret WTO code for negotiations)
….agribusinessintelligence.informa.com/PL222919/Divid… (paywalled)
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(“Special sessions” is secret WTO code for negotiations)
….agribusinessintelligence.informa.com/PL222919/Divid… (paywalled)
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Responses included: take population size into account (China); it’s difficult (EU—stick to WTO-defined trade-distorting) (Japan—market access too); time is short, better things to do before the June Ministerial Conference (US)
Other long-standing sticky issues debated too
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Other long-standing sticky issues debated too
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Who are the Cairns Group, and what are they proposing? Answers in this 👇🏽 thread.
(I wonder. Will the UK join them? Perhaps not during the Brexit transition while it shares the EU28’s WTO commitments on tariffs, tariff-quotas and farm support.)
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(I wonder. Will the UK join them? Perhaps not during the Brexit transition while it shares the EU28’s WTO commitments on tariffs, tariff-quotas and farm support.)
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