African Nations Urge U.S. to Implement WTO Cotton Ruling by December Ministerial

7 March, 2005

GENEVA--Four west and central African cotton-producing nations have called on the United States to comply with the World Trade Organization's March 3 ruling against U.S. cotton subsidies by the time of the WTO's Hong Kong ministerial conference in mid-December.In a statement issued March 6, the four countries--B