WTO talks collapse on farm deadlock
Geneva: The nine-day laborious WTO talks to salvage the Doha trade round collapsed on Tuesday after the US was locked in a deadlock with India and China over import rules for farm products. WTO chief Pascal Lamy said, "the core group of seven nations, including India, US, EU, China and Brazil, failed to reach a convergence over Special Safeguard Mechanism sought by developing countries against agriculture imports.