Archive - Oct 22, 2005 - Article

Canadian Softwood Controversy Shows Why You Can?t Trust the US to Live up to Trade Deals

21 October, 2005
As developing country negotiators in Geneva are offered what appears to be an attractive US offer to cut its agricultural subsidies by 60 per cent in order to pave the way to a new WTO Agreement in Agriculture, they might look at what is happening in Canada to understand why it is most unwise to enter into yet another trade agreement involving the United States.