Agência Brasil*
Brasília – Brazil has decided to place an inquiry at the Dispute Settlement Body at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) regarding the United States financial support granted to farmers between 1999 and 2005.
The request for the inquiry on the United States was placed at the WTO on Tuesday (10), in Geneva (Switzerland). The government of Brazil states that the subsidies granted by the North Americans in the period were above the yearly US$ 19 billion limit granted by the WTO.
The Brazilian decision takes into consideration the same inquiry placed by Canada. It was also influenced by the impasse in the negotiations of the WTO Doha Rounds, according to the undersecretary general for Economic and Technological Affairs at the Brazilian Foreign Office (Itamaraty), Roberto Azevedo.
*Translated by Mark Ament
