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Financial In Market Lawmakers from major farm states, shaken by a preliminary World Trade Organization ruling against the government's multibillion-dollar subsidies to the cotton industry, warned on Tuesday that the action could deal a severe blow to agribusinesses and farmers nationwide.

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Oriental Trading "This has the potential to have extraordinary consequences up and down every main street in rural America," Senator Kent Conrad, Democrat of North Dakota, said of the W.T.O. decision, which ruled in a case brought by Brazil that the subsidies paid to the United States cotton industry violate global trade rules.

Putin said America's position contradicted rules of diplomacy, as did "attempts to negotiate a protocol in accordance with U.S. legislation, rather than with WTO rules." Russia this year holds the chair of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations, and will host the group's annual summit in St. Petersburg, Putin's hometown, 17. A Kremlin aide said earlier Tuesday that Russia wanted to sign a bilateral deal with the United States on its WTO accession at the July summit, Novosti reports.

Financial Forex Forex Software The ruling calls into question the 2002 farm bill, which increased subsidies to $19 billion a year for the country's biggest farmers who grow commodity crops like cotton, corn, rice, wheat and soybeans. The United States said such direct payments did not distort world trade. Brazil successfully argued that because they were underwritten by taxpayer money, American farmers grew more crops that flooded world markets, brought down world commodity prices and undercut farmers in Brazil.

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Trading As lawmakers demanded serious action to respond to the ruling, the White House said that it would not make any unilateral concessions but instead would work with Congress and the agriculture sector to defend the United States' farm interests.

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Trading Financial System The case eventually could compel Washington to cut farm subsidies and force the United States, Europe and other wealthy economies to make greater concessions to poor countries at global trade talks.

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Day Trading Policy makers and officials were on the defensive, saying it was unfair for Brazil to single out the United States for its cotton subsidies when other countries have their own unfair trading practices like high tariffs and different scientific standards for agricultural imports. All those issues, they said, should be the subject of negotiations, not cases before the W.T.O.

Forex Financial Trading The In a show of bipartisanship, Representative Bob Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia, and Representative Charles W. Stenholm, Democrat of Texas, the ranking members of the House Agriculture Committee, said the decision had to be appealed.

Fortune Make Option Trading "Changes to countries' agricultural policies should come through the give and take of negotiations, not through decisions that do not appear based on W.T.O. rules," they said.

Science Of Financial Market But Brazil filed its case against the United States precisely because its officials said they were frustrated that global trade talks aimed at reducing or eliminating agricultural subsidies of wealthy nations had been blocked.

Future Trading Spreading the pain, Brazil has also filed a case at the W.T.O. against the European Union for its sugar policies. Over the last two weeks, the Europeans have been debating how to reform their policies, and reduce their subsidies in advance of any negative ruling against them.

Financial Sales Services The ruling on cotton has revived the debate in Congress over whether to pay farmers for producing food or for conserving the environment. If the preliminary ruling holds, conservation payments could become the best way to support farmers without breaking trade rules.

Commodity Trading Seeking to calm worried farmers and agribusinesses, Richard Mills, the spokesman for the United States trade representative's office, said on Tuesday that there would be no immediate effect on farm policies.

Financial Services Trading He also said the administration's response would be to press ahead with global trade talks, which broke down in Cancn, Mexico, last year, in part because of the United States stance on cotton subsidies.

Online Forex Trading "The best way to address any distortion in global cotton markets," he said "is through the W.T.O. agricultural negotiations."

Financial Portfolio Trade But lawmakers were also asking whether the United States should remain in the W.T.O. if it continued to make rulings that call into question domestic programs.

Sierra Trading Post Allen F. Johnson, the chief agriculture negotiator for the trade representative's office, said Tuesday that if the ruling did hold it "would have a negative effect on how officials see the W.T.O. and free trade in general."

Trading Financial Future Proponents of Brazil's actions said the ruling should enhance the standing of the W.T.O. by proving that developing nations could win a case against the United States.

Forex Trading Software "We think this is a real sign that global trade rules can work," said Gawain Kripke, senior trade adviser for Oxfam America, an advocacy group. "We in the United States have to play by the same rules as everyone else does."

Trading Post While some lawmakers worried that other nations would follow Brazil's example, it is unlikely because the litigation has already cost $1 million, a sum that is prohibitive for the poor nations that suffer the most harm from cheap subsidized imports.

Trading System In their annual spring meetings last week, economists at the World Bank said that 144 million people could be lifted out of poverty if rich countries reduced or eliminated the $300 billion rich nations pay their farmers in subsidies and support.

Forex Trading System By Elizabeth Becker
New York Times - 4/28/2004

Topic: Trade

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