WTO pushes on with liberalisation

6 December 1999



WTO pushes on with liberalisation

WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) members are to press ahead with trade liberalisation of agriculture.

This is despite the collapse in disarray of the Seattle meeting without any agreement being reached.

Trade envoys now intend to start talks next month with no agreed timetable or set of objectives.

• Agriculture at centre of threat to WTO talks, FWi, 26 November, 1999
• EU ready to talk subsidy cuts – Lamy, FWi, 26 October, 1999
• Growers can expect painful changes, FWi, 07 October, 1999
  
• The Times 06/12/99 page 14, page 23, page 26
  
• The Independent 06/12/99 page 13, page 17, page 3 (Monday Review)
• Financial Times 06/12/99 page 1, page 4, page 12, page 18 (Editorial)
  
• The Guardian 06/12/99 page 2, page 21 (Economics)
• The Daily Telegraph 06/12/99 page 13,