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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9045

11 October 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
Washington offers to cut farm subsidies by 60%, which is welcomed by Peter Mandelson (but he must reassure EU Member States on the issue) - Mandelson in Zurich imposes certain conditions on its pledge to match and outstrip US subsidy cuts

Brussels, 10/10/2005 (Agence Europe) - Nine weeks ahead of the Hong Kong WTO Summit, multilateral trade negotiations under the WTO's Doha Trade Round stand poised to take a new direction. In an article in Monday's Financial Times, US Trade Representative Bob Portman took the initiative by talking figures for the first time on the cuts the United States is prepared to make in its farm subsidies to kick-start the Doha trade talks. 'To jump-start our stalled negotiations, the US is prepared to...

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