The EU on Friday (28 October) put forward its "bottom line" offer to increase market access for trade partners and get World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks moving again, but US and French reaction to the proposal augurs badly.
Trade commissioner Peter Mandelson and agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel presented the tariff cut scheme to the so-called Five Interested Parties, an informal group including the US, EU, Brazil, India and Australia.
The unofficial subgroup of th...
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