Lors de la mini-réunion ministérielle de mai, à Paris, ce sont l’Union européenne et les États-Unis qui ont négocié conjointement un accord sur les équivalents ad valorem (EAV) qui a donné un nouvel élan aux négociations agricoles.
Although Joint EU-US leadership and partnership in itself is not sufficient to make a global trade round succeed, it is an indispensable prerequisite. At the Paris Mini-Ministerial Paris in May it was the EU and the US that jointly brokered an agreement on Ad Valorem Equivalents (AVEs) that gave new impetus to agricultural negotiations.
