US and EU says no progress in efforts to reduce farm trade barriers

Описание: (23 Feb 2006)
1. Wide of US Trade Representative Rob Portman and European Union Commissioner of Trade Peter Mandelson
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rob Portman, United States Trade Representative:
(very tight in) "The U.S. and EU are committed to progress, because there is so much at stake here, it really is a once in a generation opportunity to give the global economy a shot in the arm and assist in development in unprecedented ways. All countries lose if there is a failed Doha round, to move Doha to a successful and ambitious conclusion, we all must make contributions, that includes services, manufacturing, agriculture and the other areas of the round. We need contributions from the developed countries like the United States but also from developing countries and we need those contributions to happen - every country must do its part."
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Peter Mandelson, European Union Commissioner of Trade:
"Now today we agreed that progress has to be made on all fronts in parallel, we need to move in concert as Rob says, while agriculture is important for the United States and for others it is not the single issue in this round. We also agreed today, what is needed now is more serious offers from WTO members on industrial goods and services that will offer our companies the prospect of real and new market access, particularly in the big emerging economies."
4. Cutaways of news conference
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rob Portman, United States Trade Representative
"A variety of issues outside of Doha, we have a common and ongoing interests in the potential for collaboration with the European Union, examples included the protection of intellectual property, regulatory cooperation and other bilateral issues. On the bilateral front we had constructive talks on a host of those issues including agriculture, trade, FSC/ETI (FSC= Foreign Sales Corporation / ETI = Extraterritorial Income Exclusion Act of 2000), Airbus Boeing, the recent Biotech case in the WTO and many other issues. While the United States and the European Union will disagree at times, we have a healthy trans-Atlantic trading relationship with almost 500 billion dollars a year, investments of over a trillion dollars and a strong bond and a common history. We've got a lot of work to do and we need to do it together."
6. Cutaways of news conference
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Peter Mandelson, European Union Commissioner of Trade
"We also stay fully committed to the integration of China in the world's trading system and we welcome China, we embrace China as part of the World trading system, but as part of that system China has responsibilities of its own to discharge, it could contribute to that process of integration into that global economy better than anyone. We are prepared to assist with that but we must do so in a way that respects WTO rules and international law and certainly respects other people's property, intellectual property rights."
8. Wide of end of news conference
STORYLINE
Trade negotiators for the United States and the 25-nation European Union (EU) reported no breakthrough on Wednesday after two days of discussions aimed at narrowing differences on farm trade that have stalled global trade talks.
Both US Trade Representative Rob Portman and EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson expressed optimism that the differences can be resolved in time to complete the Doha round of trade talks by the end of this year.
This goal has already been missed a number of times since the Doha round of trade talks were launched in Qatar in late 2001.

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