TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues (May06/07) | http://www.twnside.org.sg
WTO negotiations in agriculture have reached a near-crisis over the issues of Special Products (SP) and Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM), with developing countries that have championed these concepts being in a state of fury at what they see as attempts by the United States and some other exporting countries to undermine agreement on and use of these two instruments.
A small-room meeting on Friday morning to discuss special products was stormy, with members of the Group of 33 strongly objecting to the proposals by the US and other exporting nations to severely restrict the definition and use of special products.
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