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Progress Made at Mini-WTO Meeting
2005-7-14 11:17:49      CRIENGLISH.com
Ministers have reached consensus on issues such as market access, along with agriculture subsidies and tariff reductions.


(World Trade Organization WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi (L), Secretary for Commerce of Hong Kong John Tsang (C) and Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai walk to attend a news conference after concluding of WTO Informal Ministerial Meeting in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning province July 13, 2005.)

(World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi, left, Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai, center, and John Tsang, Secretary for Commerce of Hong Kong, right, attend a news conference after concluding of WTO Informal Ministrial Meeting Wednesday July 13, 2005 in Dalian, China.)

Ministers at the World Trade Organization Mini-Ministerial meeting in China have reached consensus on issues such as market access, along with agriculture subsidies and tariff reductions.

During the meeting, ministers reiterated that the Doha development agenda should conclude before 2006.

They also promised to work out the agenda for discussing agriculture and non-agricultural market access issues before the 6th WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong this December.

Chinese minister of commerce Bo Xilai says the meeting's progress shows that global free trade progression in the choice of most WTO members.

Trade ministers from 30 WTO members, along with WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi, attended the two day meeting in Dalian, China.

(Photo source: yahoo.com)


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