Agriculture hogs the limelight at Cancun
Cancun: At the much-awaited ministerial conference of the WTO, agriculture is holding the key to the success of the Doha Round talks. Though trade majors like the US and the European Union are unrelenting in their posture, developing countries' coalition led by India and Brazil are equally sticking to their declared stance.

At a pre-ministerial press meet held here, US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick said: "Much of the attention here is going to be on agriculture. But the bottomline for Washington in the negotiations is market access — lower import tariffs and similar easing of measures for industrial products and services." Zoellick also hinted at the ministers resuming talks in Geneva six months later to iron out the differences and complete the modalities for negotiations
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