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Doha, Ethanol and Prices, Farm Bill Issue

Doha

An update posted yesterday at the WTO Online stated that, “Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his remarks on the second day of the ‘Global Partnership for Development’ conference in New Delhi on 13 August 2008, said that the Doha Round should not collapse over the issue of the special safeguard mechanism in agriculture for developing countries. ‘A fine balance is required and the search for this fine balance requires that our negotiating resources continue at work,’ he added.”

Trade policy analyst Ross Korves probed further into the “special safeguard mechanism” issue in an article from Friday, which was entitled, “What is a Special Safeguard Mechanism?”

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Posted by Keith Good • August, 14, 2008 • 6:17 am