U.S. agriculture groups call for clean slate in post-MC12 agenda
Decades-old sticking points in agricultural talks at the World Trade Organization threaten to derail future discussions, U.S. agriculture groups warned this week, urging the Biden administration to use the upcoming ministerial to “clean the negotiating slate.” In a Nov. 19 letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the U.S. Dairy Export Council and other agricultural industry associations said the adoption of proposals from other WTO members on what the groups...