Bid to end deadlock at trade talks

Updated: 08:02, Saturday, 13 September 2003

Negotiators will again try to break the deadlock over farm subsidies at today's session of the world trade talks in the Mexican resort of Cancun.

Developing countries including Brazil, India and China - the so-called G21 Group - want subsidies for farmers in rich countries to be reduced.

The United States and the European Union argue against this, saying developing countries had to reform their own agricultural sectors.

The talks are scheduled to end tomorrow with ministers hoping to find enough common ground to revive hopes of concluding a new global trade pact by the self-imposed deadline of 2004.

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