EGA Negotiators Narrow Product List, Focus On Final Draft By Nairobi

Trade officials negotiating the Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA) over the past two months have removed nearly 300 products from serious consideration to be covered by the deal in hopes of presenting and agreeing upon a draft final list of goods at the Dec. 15-18 WTO Nairobi Ministerial, according to Geneva sources. A chair's list leaked to Inside U.S. Trade contains 484 products that as of September constituted goods that were broadly supported by EGA members, according to an informed source...