Archive - Oct 2005 - Article

The European Union and the United States joined together on Friday to say they are prepared to cap their tariffs for industrial products at 10 percent in the Doha Development Agenda nonagricultural market access negotiations

Even when it came to the obvious benefits for US agriculture contained in the recent US-Central American Free Trade Agreement, it was difficult weaning support from most members of the House Agriculture Committee, commented a senior committee aide on Friday

Immigration, an issue of well-documented political toxicity within the United States, is now also complicating efforts to strike a deal in the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations.