France warns EU official on concessions
France on Thursday warned EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson against making further concessions on agriculture amid a global push to revive the stalled Doha round of trade negotiations. During a meeting with Mandelson in Paris, Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy "firmly reminded" the top Brussels trade negotiator that his existing offer to cut tariffs on farm goods "constituted a red line and exhausted the European Union's room for negotiation," a ministry statement said.
The world's main trade powers have renewed efforts to break the deadlock on agriculture that has so far thwarted the current trade round, launched more than five years ago in Doha, Qatar.
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