CIAO DATE: 12/03

What the Cancun Meeting Can Achieve

Claude E. Barfield

On The Issues

September 2003

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Abstract

As the WTO Ministerial Meeting opens in Cancún, Mexico, conflict surrounds the agenda. U.S. negotiators must find a balance between compromise and assertiveness to overcome soured U.S.-EU relations and should push for a sharp reduction in agricultural trade barriers, increased liberalization in the service sectors, and reductions in the remaining tariffs on industrial products.

Full Text (PDF format, 3 pages, 117 KB)