Ministers eye WTO ministerial outcomes on fisheries, public stockholding, ag domestic support
Trade ministers from about 40 countries have identified fisheries subsidies, public stockholding for food security purposes and domestic support for agriculture as areas in which negotiators should focus their work ahead of the World Trade Organization's 11th ministerial, which is just two months away. Ministers met in Marrakesh, Morocco, on Monday and Tuesday in hopes of identifying what outcomes could plausibly be achieved by the December ministerial in Buenos Aires, Argentina. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer did not attend the...