Mark Vaile
Mark Vaile
Mark Anthony James Vaile AOis a former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and former leader of the National Party of Australia. Vaile is currently a non-executive director of a number of public listed corporations...
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There are many hundreds of millions of people across the world living in poverty-stricken countries who are looking to us to improve their opportunities by negotiating better market access.
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In the December round of talks, there will be detailed negotiations on draft chapters of the agreement on services and investment and the first in-depth consideration of market access for goods. It will be our third round of talks since we started negotiations in March this year,
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In a competitive market any buyer wants to buy commodities at the best prices they can. Sellers of quality products want to get the best prices they can.
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The US offer on domestic subsidies has thrown a challenge at the feet of the EU to come forward with a much more ambitious proposal on market access.
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The failure of the EU to make a meaningful offer on agricultural market access is deeply disappointing. Those EU member states who talk up their contribution to development are now blocking the most significant steps the global community could take in years to create new opportunities for the world's poorest countries.
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Our interest is in having the tariff and the quota removed as soon as possible. That's what we continue to argue for,
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With only seven weeks left until the Hong Kong ministerial conference in December, we have just about run out of time, ... If Hong Kong fails there is little chance of completing negotiations in 2006, putting the future of multilateral trade reform at serious risk for the short term.
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The pace of our export growth has already slowed significantly, and will slow further if global demand remains suppressed,
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I don't believe the meeting should be postponed, even if the EU does not put forward a better proposal, ... I believe that the EU and France would need to account for their actions before the parliament of world opinion.
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France and other EU members have taken the EU to the brink of collapsing the round,
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Certainly (arbitration) is the other avenue of pursuit open to us (but) I believe that through the current process we will achieve a satisfactory outcome,
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We cannot continue to baulk at making commitments because we want someone else to move first. All areas of the negotiations need to move forward together.
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We welcome this announcement, ... The Australian government has announced a judicial inquiry on this matter and it is common sense to let that process run its course.
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We wouldn't necessarily say it's a political gift,