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US, EU must put efforts to break trade deadlock: WTO

Afp, Paris
United States and the European Union must each make further efforts to push forward negotiations on agriculture at the World Trade Organization, WTO director general Pascal Lamy told French LCI television here on Friday.
Lamy said that the United States "must move on the budgetary support which it provides for its farmers, and they will do so," Lamy said. The European Union had "carried out its reform" already and "it has some room for maneouvre to negotiate".
Lamy, a Frenchman and a former EU trade commissioner, said: "Each has to make efforts."
Referring to deadlock at WTO talks in Geneva in the Doha Round of trade liberalisation, essentially over agriculture, he said that such efforts by the United States and EU "will do much to reduce tension among developing
countries which want to see trade opened up" and "things will go rather better".
Lamy said: "It is not the United States which is pushing Europe in one direction or another, but all developing countries which are pushing the United States and Europe to open their markets a little and to cease subsidising exports, for example."
He continued: "It is clear that if the Europeans subsidise exports of sugar and of sugar beet, and compete with cane sugar, or if the Americans subsidise cotton and so compete with African countries, it is not fair."
Asked about the causes of the deadlock over agriculture, Lamy said that agricultural produce accounted for less than 10 percent of international trade but that 70 percent of poor people in the world lived in rural regions.
Support for agriculture is at the heart of the Doha Round of tradeopening negotiations. Talks being held in Geneva are intended to prepare for a ministerial conference of the WTO in Hong Kong in December.
There is broad understanding that progress has to be made soon to avert failure at the Hong Kong meeting.
France, in particular, regards agriculture, and support for it under the EU Common Agriculture Policy, as a matter of vital interest.
This week French ministers have signalled several times that they are concerned the European Commission is set to make undue concessions in the talks in Geneva, and on Thursday French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said that any further proposals by the EU would be premature.