EU agriculture commissioner Franz Fischler has criticised the US House of Representatives’ decision to agree a ten-year increase in price-linked support for farmers.

Fischler stated that it ran counter to the US position in the World Trade Organisation agricultural round, where its diplomats have argued for a deal “to reduce substantially trade-distorting domestic support” worldwide.

By Keith Nuthall, just-food.com correspondent

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