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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11458

22 December 2015
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) trade
End of agricultural export subsidies but future of Doha Round uncertain

Brussels, 21/12/2015 (Agence Europe) - The 162 countries of the World Trade Organization (WTO), meeting last week at the 10th ministerial conference in Nairobi, thrashed out a last minute agreement on Saturday 19 December on the agricultural section of the Doha Round, deciding that developed countries will get rid of subsidies for farm exports immediately, that developing countries will phase them out by the end of 2018 (though maintaining some flexibility until the end of 2023) and the...

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