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New Minister Hopeful WTO Talks Will Succeed

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It may take a lower level of ambition, but the sputtering WTO trade talks may yet reach the finish line, says Ted Menzies, minister of state for finance. Menzies has witnessed the Doha round negotiations, which began in 2001, as a farm leader, opposition trade critic and now a cabinet minister. The round was envisaged
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Mercosur Trade Deal To Cost EU Farmers

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European farmers could lose more than three billion euros in annual revenue by 2020 under any free trade deal between the European Union and Latin America’s Mercosur region, a study for the EU’s executive showed. The deepest losses would be felt by beef producers in Ireland, Britain and France, hit by a predicted 200,000-tonne annual
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Exporting To India Not Without Challenges

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India is emerging as an attractive market for Canadian agricultural exports, but there are a few hurdles to keep in mind, participants in a recent business forum were told. While the rest of the world is struggling to spring back from a recession, India’s projected growth for 2011-12 is 8.75 per cent to 9.25 per
Crops, Oilseeds

China Group Investing In Brazil Grains

China’s Chongqing Grain Group (CGG) plans to invest four billion reais ($2.4 billion) in an agricultural complex in Brazil’s northeast, officials in Bahia state said March 21, expanding China’s growing presence in Brazil. The investment will include a soy crusher, a soy storage terminal and a fertilizer-processing plant, officials said, with construction of the complex
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Britain Adds Voice To Criticism Of EU GM Crop Plans

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Britain has become the latest European Union country to raise serious doubts over proposals to let EU governments decide individually whether to grow or ban genetically modified (GM) crops. Several large EU countries including France, Germany and Spain have already criticized draft legislation tabled by the EU executive in July, which would allow governments to
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WFP Sends Food Aid To North Africa

Food stocks are depleted and supply chains disrupted in Libya, the United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) said March 2, calling for urgent humanitarian aid to the country hit by political unrest. Responding to the critical situation in North Africa, the WFP is launching a $38.7 million emergency operation to provide food assistance to 2.7
Crops

Doha Trade Talks Start To Move

The long-running Doha trade talks have finally started to move after a constructive week of talks among key powers that grappled with issues of substance, the U.S. envoy to the World Trade Organization said Feb. 17. The comments, by U.S. Ambassador Michael Punke, were one of the strongest signs yet that an intensified push to
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U.S. Rejects Mexico Plan For Doha Trade Deal

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The United States rejected a Mexican government proposal to break the deadlock in long-stalled world trade talks Feb. 4, saying it failed to achieve the amount of new market opening needed for a deal. Trade ministers agreed last week to push for an outline deal in the decade-old talks by July, and instruct their negotiators
News, Poultry

Doha Nearly Dead, Ritz Concedes

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The Doha round of international trade negotiations has passed its “best before” date and it would make more sense for countries to salvage the progress made during 10 years of negotiations, says Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. “I don’t see a groundswell of support for the latest efforts to reach a wide-ranging agreement,” Ritz said at
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Another Push For WTO Deal In Play

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Trading powers who have embarked on an intensified push for a new trade deal sought by political leaders must go faster if they are to have any hope of finishing the Doha round this year, the head of the WTO said Feb. 2. Trade ministers meeting in the Swiss resort of Davos last week agreed

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