Memo: Doha Round: Geneva Ministerial, June 2006

Preview of a Ministerial Meeting of WTO negotiators in Geneva from 28 June 2006, which was intended to push forward negotiations in the ongoing WTO Doha Round of trade talks. WTO negotiators were committed to finding an agreement on key ‘modalities’ for reducing agricultural subsidies and industrial and farm tariffs before the summer. The European Union was to be represented by EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson and EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel.