The chair of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round agricultural talks has welcomed some recent progress made in the negotiations, but has warned whether this is sufficient to guarantee a successful WTO December summit in Hong Kong “remains in question”.
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Ambassador Crawford Falconer, of New Zealand, was pleased receiving updated US data on access to its food market and details of European Union reforms on production subsidies and market access; however, this information should have arrived six months ago, he said.
On subsidies, there is growing agreement on cuts to market-distorting ‘Amber Box’ payments, but not regarding production limiting Blue Box payments, such as set-aside.
