US accuses India of trying to wreck WTO talks

[OhioChick]

Source: Economic Times India

10 Jun, 2008, 0956 hrs IST, AGENCIES

WASHINGTON: The United States on Monday accused India of trying to wreck world trade liberalisation talks, saying the Asian power was looking at the Doha Round negotiations as a "donor's conference."

"It is disappointing that India has been a roadblock to success in the Doha negotiations," US Under Secretary of Commerce Christopher Padilla declared at a forum on "Responsibility and partnership in the 21st century" organized by the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington.

He said India was continuing to insist that it and other developing countries be protected from any real market opening in industrial goods, agriculture or services while asking developed countries to do ever more.

"The Doha Round negotiations are not a donor's conference. They require major economic powers like India to step up and take responsible leadership, rather than working behind the scenes for Doha's demise," he said.


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Snip~ ""Yet so far India has resisted virtually all liberalizing proposals in Doha, even those proffered by other developing countries," Padilla charged.
Padilla said the Doha talks were more than just about reducing tariff rates or lowering agricultural subsidies."

[DCKit]

1. "...more than just about reducing tariff rates or lowering agricultural subsidies."'

So we throw them a bone on outsourcing while putting Monsanto in control of the entire agricultural sector and forcing them to accept subsidized American farm products in order to collapse their own agricultural system?

Really, WTF is India's problem? Obviously this is a win-win for the U.S. corporations, why can't they see that and just let the NWO neocons have this one concession?

:sarcasm:

[bahrbearian]

2. What are we going to do ? Quit and take our ball home?

[Supersedeas]

3. and Condi-boots works so hard on the India nuclear deal--this is how they repay her?