The United States Is Willing To Agree With WTO On Cotton Issue In China.

2008/8/13 16:41:00 36

Mark Keenum, Vice Minister of agriculture of the United States, said there was another problem in Geneva negotiations, which was the issue of cotton subsidies in the United States.

Keenum said he was willing to work with other countries to explore how to solve the problem of high cotton subsidies in the US, as long as China allows more American cotton to enter the Chinese market steadily, because China is the largest market for us cotton exports.

If we can all see significant improvements in China's cotton imports, we are prepared to sit down and discuss how to solve the US cotton subsidy problem, he said, and are willing to continue to adjust domestic cotton arrangements in the US.

50% of US cotton exports have entered the Chinese market.

Therefore, when China arbitrarily blocks imports, the United States will be greatly affected.

Keenum said that China manipulates their tariffs to protect the interests of cotton farmers in China.

"Over the past two weeks, U.S. negotiators and Chinese officials have made several contacts in Geneva," Keenum said.

But we can not persuade them to accept reasonable market access proposals. "