Consumers Missing in Tomato Spat: U.S. Commerce Undersecretary for International Trade Francisco Sanchez told reporters that the antidumping dispute on tomatoes was between growers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border and not between the governments. On that basis, the party lacking participation in the dispute is the people destined to pay higher prices as a result of any negotiated settlement: consumers.Demandeurs Extraordinaire: A group of African countries are suggesting that the Doha agenda needs "symmetry" between its demands and offerings. They suggest that symmetry looks like the following: African countries get to impose special and differential treatment protection against imports, while rich countries provide "new and additi...

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