Inside U.S. Trade - 12/12/2014

Negotiators Mount Last-Ditch Effort For ITA Deal Before Friday Deadline

December 12, 2014 at 12:30 AM
Negotiators in Geneva on Thursday (Dec. 11) were struggling to pull together a last-minute deal on which products should be subject to tariff elimination under an expanded Information Technology Agreement (ITA), after it became clear that China would not yield to demands from South Korea and Taiwan to drop duties on flat-panel displays. The fight over flat panels has caused participants to blow past their original Thursday target for wrapping up the talks on the product scope. The European Union,...

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