AFBF: New Approach Needed For World Trade Talks

American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) President Bob Stallman said the Doha Round of World Trade Organization global trade talks need a new structure to move forward, Farm Progress reports.

AFBF plans to begin discussions with domestic and international business and trade leaders in an effort to find a new way to move forward by removing barriers that hinder trade and damage global economic markets.

“It is imperative during this ‘pause’ in the WTO talks that we develop a new format that allows like-minded countries that want to move ahead to do so, and I think that can be done within the WTO,” said Stallman. “We’re not advocating trying to supplant the WTO because it is a rules-based trading system that exists and that works.” ❖