Going Green

Monday, July 21, 2008

EU Farm Tariff Cuts

Subsidies are an impairment to free trade.


EU offers to cut farm tariffs 60 percent

By BRADLEY S. KLAPPER
Associated Press Writer

GENEVA (AP) -- The European Union said Monday it would be willing to slash farm tariffs by 60 percent as part of a new global trade pact, the deepest cut it has ever offered.
EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson told reporters at...(complete article
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