AAP General News (Australia)
02-13-2004
Qld: FTAA a betrayal of Australian farmers
A sugar industry chief says the willingness of the United States to negotiate sugar
tariffs with the other 33 countries that make up the Americas is a blatant insult to Australian
farmers.
The US signalled yesterday that it's willing to negotiate cuts in US sugar tariffs
with the Americas, despite its hardline resistance to Australian producers.
ROSS WILSON, chief US negotiator for the proposed 34-nation Free Trade Area of the
Americas, has told a group of trade lawyers there's been no change in their position and
that all tariffs are subject to negotiation.
Australian Cane Farmers Association Chairman ROSS WALKER has expressed his dismay over
what he calls the unbelievable double-standard.
He says the US seems to pick and choose the rules to suit them.
Mr WALKER says that a number of mills are destined to close in Queensland, because
sugar wasn't included in the FTA with the United States.
AAP RTV jtl/sc/rcg/rt
KEYWORD: TRADE US FARMERS (BRISBANE)
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