New Domestic Support Proposals At WTO Do Not Address U.S.-China Deadlock

Various members of the World Trade Organization have put forward a series of proposals aimed at cutting domestic support, but these proposals do not appear to address the overarching problems plaguing the negotiations, namely that the United States and China cannot agree on what cuts the other should make to its domestic support programs. The U.S. at a July 18 meeting of the negotiating group on agriculture asked whether the latest proposals were “putting the cart before the horse” because...