WTO: Clash over domestic support & market access mandate for MC13

The United States and Paraguay, on behalf of the Cairns Group of farm- exporting countries, seemingly clashed with the European Union, Switzerland, and Japan on 6 February over negotiating the mandate on domestic support and market access in agriculture, which is expected to be agreed upon, barring opposition, at the World Trade Organization’s 13^th ministerial conference (MC13) beginning in Abu Dhabi in three weeks’ time, said people familiar with the discussions.