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Author |
Date and source |
Quotes |
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| Robert Zoellick, US Trade
Representative |
Reuters 21 March 2003 |
By improving WTO disciplines on harmful fisheries subsidies, we
can give a concrete, real world demonstration that trade
liberalization benefits the environment and contributes to
sustained development. |
| The Economist |
1 September 2001
The Economist
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"
The average annual growth in cereal yields worldwide will fall
by more than a third compared with the rates in 1980s and
1990s. More trade between rich and poor countries would help,
but not if subsidies and other trade distortions
persist." |
| Colombian
Minister of External Trade, Marta Lucía Ramirez |
22 August 2001
EFE
|
"
(Debe haber una liberalización en el accesso a los mercados
que incluya) " la eliminación de todas las formas de
subsidios a la exportación y concretar las
disposiciones sobre el trato especial y diferenciado para
países en desarrollo como parte integrante del resultado de
la eventual negociación" |
| UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan |
17 July 2001
Agence France Press
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"
Subsidies
"lower world prices, leading to lower incomes and poverty
in Africa."" |
| New Zealand's Trade Negotiations
Ministe, Jim
Sutton |
12 July 2001
Dow Jones International News Service
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"
Trade
distorting subsidies - particularly in developed countries -
hamper the development of lucrative export markets…" |
| United
Kingdom Secretary
of State for International Development,
Claire Short |
December
2000
Paper: "Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalization
Work for the Poor" |
" There are substantial inequities in the existing international
trading system. […] Despite progress over the last 50 years,
developed countries maintain significant tariff and non-tariff
barriers against the exports of developing countries
[…which…] are most damaging in areas of key importance[…],
such as agriculture, textile and clothing, while the use and
threat of 'trade defence' instruments (e.g. anti-dumping)
creates further obstacles". |
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