日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

  Home>News Center>Bizchina
       
 

WTO agrees to end farm export subsidies
(Shanghai Daily/Agency)
Updated: 2005-12-19 09:02

Bringing a binding global trade treaty one step closer, WTO negotiators approved a trade agreement yesterday that eliminates farm export subsidies by 2013 and makes modest cuts in other trade barriers, while leaving many contentious issues for later.


WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy, right, and John Tsang, Hong Kong's Commerce Secretary and chairperson of the 6th WTO Ministerial Conference congratulate each other following the conclusion of the six-day summit Sunday evening Dec.18, 2005 in Hong Kong. [AP]

Meeting in Hong Kong, all 149 member nations and territories of the World Trade Organization endorsed the agreement after six days of talks that sometimes appeared on the verge of collapse.

The agreement falls far short of the ambitious deal that WTO negotiators had originally hoped for from the session: a detailed set of formulas for cutting farm and industrial tariffs and subsidies. Toward that end, the text set April 30, 2006, as a new deadline to work out those details, required if the WTO is to set a global free trade treaty by the end of next year.

The WTO made no immediate decision on the location and date of its next ministerial meeting, leaving that decision to a later date.

Delegates managed a last-minute breakthrough on the thorny issue of farm trade subsidies, with wealthy nations agreeing to eliminate the government payments to promote exports like cotton and sugar by 2013.

The 2013 date was a key demand of the European Union, which faced intense pressure from Brazil and other developing nations to end agricultural export subsidies by 2010.

But in a compromise, the text included a provision that a substantial part of the subsidies would go by "the first half of the implementation period" that the text suggested would be set at a later date.

Although the agreement didn't reflect any outcome from negotiations on industrial tariff cuts, it sought to take the process forward by addressing a key concern of the poor countries. It said discussions on tariff cuts must proceed in tandem with the progress made on the issue of granting flexibility to poor countries in pursuing market opening policies.

It also linked negotiations on agricultural trade with those in industrial goods in the hope that the move could help expedite progress in ongoing trade talks and conclude these before end of next year.

In a victory for West African cotton-producing nations, rich countries agreed to eliminate all export subsidies on cotton in 2006.

Under the agreement, wealthy nations must allow duty-free and quota-free privileges for at least 97 percent of products exported by the so-called least developed countries, those with per capita incomes of less than US$750 a year, by 2008.
Agencies



 
  Story Tools  
   
Manufacturers, Exporters, Wholesalers - Global trade starts here.
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 成人片免费视频 | 最近日韩免费视频 | 欧美不卡在线视频 | 撸大师在线观看 | 91免费入口 | 欧美黄色精品 | 九一在线 | 91免费进入 | 四虎国产精品永久免费观看视频 | 欧美成人精品欧美一级 | 欧美一区一区 | 六月婷婷在线 | 天天干天天操天天操 | av福利在线观看 | 日韩精品在线免费 | 小泽玛利亚av在线 | 亚洲黑丝在线 | 熟女少妇a性色生活片毛片 欧美福利在线视频 | 超碰99在线 | 亚洲欧美日韩第一页 | 激情综合激情五月 | 日韩欧美福利视频 | 久色免费视频 | 久久成年人视频 | 天天舔天天插 | 李丽珍毛片 | 日韩操操操 | 青青草成人在线 | 黄色动漫在线免费观看 | 国产精品1区2区3区4区 | 国产精品久久av | 日韩国产激情 | 成人a v视频 | 日韩欧美黄色 | 日韩三区在线观看 | 视频大全在线观看网址 | 亚洲精品一区二区三区蜜桃久 | 成人四虎影院 | 亚洲啪啪 | 天堂中文在线观看视频 | 一级真人毛片 |