Article: Big exporters advance trade disputes at WTO.(World Trade Organization, leading agricultural exporting countries )

In what some observers are warning could be the start of a flood, trade disputes at the World Trade Organization among some of the world's leading agricultural exporting countries advanced last week, just as talks under the Doha Round faltered.

A complaint by the U.S. against the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) was turned over to a WTO dispute panel last Monday in an expected procedural move. A Brazilian challenge to the U.S. farm bill was delayed. The same day, the European Union formally asked for consultations with Australia over its quarantine and inspection services, and Thailand requested consultations with the EU over its tariff reclassification of frozen ...

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