Brussels, 09/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has welcomed the “significant breakthrough” which the thirty principal member countries of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) made last Wednesday at the ministerial mini-session in Paris on the issue of converting specific agricultural customs duty into ad valorem equivalents (AVEs) as part of trade negotiations on the Doha Round. For nearly four months, this highly technical and complex point has been blocking all talks in...