Alan Beattie, Raphael Minder, and Frances Williams report that France has called an emergency meeting of European Union ministers to address it's concerns that the EU's trade representative, Peter Mandelson, is giving away too much on agricultural tariffs and subsidies: Emergency meeting called on Doha offer (Financial Times, October 13) :
France on Thursday night called for an emergency meeting of European Union ministers to discuss growing concerns in Paris that Europe will concede too much ground in the Doha round of trade talks...
...France's concerns, backed by 12 other member states, revolve around maintaining the EU's farm tariffs and subsidies.
...The EU offer this week involved a 70 per cent cut in the upper limits for the subsidies that are regarded as distorting trade. But its proposed cuts to tariffs would have seen the highest reduced by only 50 per cent, as opposed to the 90 per cent reduction proposed by the US.
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