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Last ditch meeting attempts to avert WTO trade fiasco

Trade ministers from major world economies have gathered in Geneva in a final attempt to save WTO talks on world trade liberalisation. No breakthrough was reported on the first day of negotiations on Sunday (23 July), with talks set to continue on Monday.

The world's six major trading powers - Australia, Brazil, the EU, India, Japan and the US, also known as the G6 – account for some three quarters of world trade.

"There was no movement at all on domestic support [of agriculture]....

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