US offers to lower farm subisidy cap: WTO mediator
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The United States has agreed to cut its  maximum agricultural subsidies in a &quot;significant step&quot; towards  advancing negotiations on a new global trade pact, the mediator  of the farm talks said on Thursday.
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The United States and Europe temporarily headed off a multibillion-dollar trade dispute today by deferring World Trade Organization complaints.
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Mediators of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) troubled farming and industrial goods talks on Tuesday proposed compromise texts meant to save the Doha free trade accord.
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The European Union has asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to order the United States and Canada to lift sanctions on EU exports because of EU&#39;s ban on hormone beef.
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BRUSSELS: The European Union sought talks with Washington yesterday over US export tax subsidies that will survive last month&#39;s repeal of a system the World Trade Organisation (WTO) had declared illegal.
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GENEVA, Jul 18 (IPS) - Several developing countries said Wednesday they  will oppose a steep down payment being demanded from them in  market access commitments for industrial goods as proposed in a  compromise draft text to revive the troubled Doha trade  negotiations.
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The World Trade Organization imposed penalties Friday on US exports ranging from apples to textiles, escalating a trade dispute the Bush administration has struggled to defuse by unsuccessfully
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The US takes legal action against China over subsidies which it says breach World Trade Organization rules.
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Pressure mounted to cut import duties on wine and spirits after the United States said it had joined the European Union in asking the World Trade Organization to intervene in the matter. Mariann Fischer Boel, the agriculture commissioner for the union, who was in New Delhi, was set to meet the Indian commerce minister, Kamal Nath, to press the issue. On Tuesday, the United States trade representative, Susan C. Schwab, said Washington had filed a complaint with the W.T.O. on the tariffs, which are seen abroad as unfair trade barriers. Indiaâs basic import duties of 100 percent on wine and 150 percent on spirits are within the W.T.O. limits, but federal surcharges and state-level taxes take the tariff up to 540 percent in some cases.
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The United States has been ordered to withdraw some of its support programs for producers of cotton and other commodities, according to a World Trade Organization report made public Wednesday.
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Canada has taken the next step in its  challenge of U.S. farm subsidies to the World Trade  Organization, requesting on Friday that a dispute settlement  panel be established in the case.
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A U.S. government official played down reports that the U.S. is considering taking the European Union to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the imposition of new duties on high-tech imports such as flat-screen monitors and digital set-top boxes.
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The European Union and the United States agreed Tuesday to defer pursuing complaints with the World Trade Organization while they attempt to settle their dispute over subsidies to Airbus and Boeing through bilateral talks.
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OTTAWA (CP) - A new international trade ruling could save the bacon of thousands of Canadian swine producers who were accused of illegally subsidizing and then dumping their animals into the United States market.
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The World Trade Organization called on the United States and Europe to lower their farm barriers in return for greater export access to India, Brazil and other developing countries.
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By LIBBY QUAID  WASHINGTON - Trying to tighten the federal budget, the Bush administration on Wednesday proposed to reduce farm payments $18 billion over the next five years.
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The US textile industry said yesterday that it is formally asking the Bush administration to cap China&#39;s shipments of trousers, shirts, sheets and other textile items to the United States, warning