Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Trade powers launch new WTO push, US hopeful

(Reuters) - Trade powers launched an eleventh-hour effort to rescue global trade talks on Tuesday as negotiators prepared for what the United States called a critical week.

U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab, leaving the first of five days of closed-door talks in Germany with counterparts from the European Union, Brazil and India, told reporters that this was "a critical week" for the talks, and that the U.S. was prepared to do its part to make progress.


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