Week-long WTO fisheries meeting leads to more text, divergences over scope

Just three weeks before the World Trade Organization gathers for the 11th ministerial conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, members remain divided over whether a potential ban on fisheries subsidies will apply to all countries and all types of subsidies. During a weeklong negotiating session on fisheries, India came forward with proposals that would restrict the types of subsidies to be covered by a ban as well as which members that ban would apply to, according to a Geneva trade official...