A monthly update on agricultural trade issues in future EU ACP trade relations.
- EPA negotiations: News
* EU concluding a range of FTA negotiations
* Résolution ACP sur les APE
* AFD-GRET study shows potential flexibility for current EPA negotiations
- EPA negotiations: West Africa
* Debates continue on the basis for an EU-west Africa EPA
- EPA negotiations: Central Africa
* Concerns expressed over costs and benefits of IEPA
- EPA negotiations: Eastern and Southern Africa
- Comprehensive ESA-EU EPA still some time off
- Market access and market developments
- EC proposes action to improve functioning of food supply chain
- CAP reform
* The future of the CAP
- WTO agreement on agriculture
* EU launches WTO challenge to Chinese use of export taxes
* WTO DG upbeat against a background of general gloom
* ACP resolution on the WTO
- Sugar sector
* Some setbacks but overall good times for Illovo Sugar
* ACP Ministers adopt resolution on sugar
* Sugar prices expected to remain buoyant
- Banana sector
* Resolution of banana dispute pending
- Beef sector
* Differentiating EU beef products on animal welfare ground
- Cereals sector
* Maize trade patterns changing
- Cotton sector
* ACP resolution on cotton
- Dairy sector
* Latest quarterly review of the dairy market
* Farmers’ perspectives of the future of the EU dairy sector
- Fruit and vegetable sector
* Carbon effects of international trade debated
- Rice sector
* FAO round-up of global rice market developments
Auteur(s): Agritrade News Update