Brussels, 04/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday, after the ministerial meeting of the OECD in Paris and just before the start of the mini-ministerial session of the WTO which started that afternoon, Commissioner Peter Mandelson took stock of a certain amount of “progress” and the possibility of finding “the basis for an agreement” on the important issue of the conversion of specific agricultural customs duty rates into equivalent ad valorem duty under trade negotiations on the...