Article: Zoellick starts tour to negotiate CAFTA; Presence of 2 Cancun holdouts stirs concerns.(BUSINESS)

Byline: Jeffrey Sparshott, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

U.S. Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick is in Central America this week to meet with the United States' best prospects for a new free-trade agreement - some of the same countries that lined up against him at World Trade Organization negotiations last month.

Global trade talks in Cancun, Mexico, collapsed when rich and poor countries failed to agree on new rules for investment, agriculture and other sectors - leaving smaller bilateral and regional deals as the United States' clearest avenue to liberalizing trade.

"The recent setback in Cancun of the global trade talks makes it all the more ...

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