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Agriculture discussions open WTO meeting
By Jiang Jingjing and Zheng Yanyan (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-13 05:59
G20 proposed a special deal for developing economies to ease their entry into
overseas agricultural markets, and reiterated that the concerns of the economies
new to the WTO must be effectively addressed.
The group also presented a proposal at the meeting highlighting the three
pillars of agricultural negotiations: Domestic support, export competition and
market access.
The United States, the European Union (EU) and Japan have all cautionsly
welcomed the G20 proposals, calling them a "good starting point" for later
negotiations.
EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said she welcomes the G20
initiative.
"The EU is ready to move away from its initial position on its market access
position to seek the middle ground between that position and the new G20
proposal," Boel said.
US trade representative Rob Portman said: "It (the G20
proposal) does provide a formula that we believe is a basis upon which we can
now find a middle ground to move forward we are prepared to make a move to the
middle."
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