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Members Advance Talks On Doha Tariff Cutting Methods, But Progress Lagging

June 18, 2015 at 9:15 PM
Members of the World Trade Organization have advanced their efforts to advance the Doha round negotiations in the area of agricultural market access to the point of discussing three tariff-cutting methodologies, but instead of narrowing their disagreements, the discussion seems to reinforce their differences, according to Geneva sources. That is because one of the three is based on the 2008 draft modalities but would entail lesser tariff cuts than originally proposed. The 2008 draft text sets up a tiered formula...


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