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An article posted in NakedCapitalism.com on the failure of the Doha
round of trade talks, and walking away from principles we'd agreed
to - we're taking our marbles and going elsewhere...<br>
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Yves Smith summarizes, "
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this post describes the US foot-dragging and gamesmanship to protect
US agricultural interests from competition from developing
economies."<br>
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href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/americas-double-standard-on-trade.html"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/americas-double-standard-on-trade.html">http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/americas-double-standard-on-trade.html</a></a><br>
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the United States has been, and remains, the principal reason for
that failure. Since 2008, when negotiations broke down, the U.S. has
refused to continue negotiating on the key issues central to the
development agenda – reducing agricultural subsidies, allowing
developing countries special protection measures for agriculture,
eliminating export subsidies and credits, and a host of other
issues."<br>
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