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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8648

19 February 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/wto
United States ready to liberalise farm policy, Zoellick says

Brussels, 18/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - The United States is ready for "aggressive liberalisation" of its agriculture trade policies, US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick said in Cape Town while on visit there on Tuesday to push for new trade talks. "The US is willing to eliminate export subsidies, including the subsidy element of credits … and we are willing to take very significant cuts in domestic subsidies if we can get Europe and Japan to do the same", he said. He insisted that:...

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