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Brazil Lashes Out At US-EU ‘Green’ Trade Plan
By Mr Ethanol | December 10, 2007
AFP:
Senior trade officials from the United States and Brazil clashed Sunday over a US-EU proposal for fewer tariffs and trade barriers on environmentally-friendly goods and services.
Celso Amorim, Brazil’s minister of foreign relations, said there was “no agreement” on the proposal when it was discussed at a trade ministers meeting on the sidelines of a key climate summit on Indonesia’s island of Bali.
The EU and United States proposed last week that all 151 World Trade Organisation members cut tariffs on at least 43 types of environmentally-friendly goods and services in order to boost their use.
“I think this list is incomplete, it won’t do much for climate change,” said Amorim, adding that the impact the items on the list would have on climate change was “not conclusive”.
“There’s certainly disagreement here, but that should not prevent us from negotiation,” he added.
Brazil has protested the exclusion of ethanol — one of its main exports and a product being touted as a key biofuel — from the list.
But in a statement released to coincide with the meeting, US Trade Representative Susan Schwab described the move as “ground-breaking” and “innovative”. More.
Topics: Brazil, Ethanol, Green Business |
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December 10th, 2007 at 7:40 am
If I was a small country I’d think long and hard before signing up for a deal like this. The ‘level playing field’ (so beloved of economists) tends to favour the stronger team.
It also doesn’t address what America might do to actually cut it’s emissions. So it looks like an attempt to divert attention from the main game to me.
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Greed. Profit comes first as it always has and as it always will. Before the environment, people and food. Shame!