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EU trade commissioner in China for WTO talks
BEIJING. Mar 28; European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy arrived in Beijing today for the third round of talks this year on China's entry to the World Trade Organisation. says Reuters.
All signs pointed to very tough talks with Beijing saying it was In no mood to go beyond the landmark deal it signed with the United States in November and the EU saying it was ready to walk away unless it got a satisfactory deal.
"I am coming in a constructive way. in a constructive spirit, but it's negotiations." Lamy told reporters. "I won't comment on this until the end."
It was not clear when his talks would begin, although officials accompanying Lamy said the first session was likely to take place on Tuesday afternoon.
State media said on Monday China was upbeat on clinching a deal with the EU. the last major WTO member with which Beijing has to agree terms of accession.
But they signalled there were limits to what China would concede in this week's talks.
The Beijing youth Daily said a WTO deal was ' within striking distance," but it repeated assertions by top trade officials that China was unlikely to give more to the EU than It had to the United States.
With the exception of pledges that cannot be made to any WTO member, there are few remaining disputes between China and the EU." the newspaper said, quoting recent remarks by Foreign Trade Minister Shi Guangcheng.
China’s chief negotiator Long Yongtu made similar remarks In Geneva last week, say-
Ing "China could not give to one partner what it had not been able to promise to another."
Lamy's spokesman Anthony Gooch said last week EU negotiators would be "putting our best efforts into trying to cut a bilateral deal." He played down Long's remarks, saying they were just part of a tough negotiating process.
EU officials have said outstanding areas of difficulty included services, telecoms, life Insurance, banking and distribution.
They have declined to say
how long the delegation would remain in Beijing, but said that they would not hesitate to re-tum to Brussels without a deal.
The last round of trade talks ended in disagreement In February with China saying a deal was close but the EU insisting not enough progress was made.
Some European sources said EU negotiators spent time discussing issues they thought had been settled during earlier talks.
China, potentially the world's biggest marketplace with 1.3 billion consumers, has reached deals with 27 major countries within the 135-mem-ber WTO. but these agreements still have to be "multilateralised" at the Geneva-based body.
Last week. WTO members set a mid-May date for a major push on finalising China's bid to enter a global free-trade regime, which began In 1986.
The EU-Chlna negotiations take place as the US Congress prepares to debate legislation that would grant China permanent trading privileges In the US market.
In exchange for market openings by China, President Bill Clinton says the Congress must grant the country permanent normal trade relations (NTR).
Opponents of permanent NTR. which would guarantee Chinese goods, the same low-tariff access to US markets as products from nearly every other country, have cited China's record on human rights and labour, as well as recent military threats against democratic rival Taiwan, as reasons to deny Beijing the status.