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Paralysis at the political level continues to stymie attempts to move forward in the WTO Doha talks on farm trade, sources said, after a meeting on the controversial

After more than two years of negotiations, the European Council and European Parliament have signed a provisional agreement that, if approved, would ban illegal timber from entering the EU.

Trade officials from Brazil and the United States reached a place-holder accord that delays until 2012 the imposition of trade sanctions in a protracted dispute over Washington

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UN climate talks held in Bonn, Germany over the weekend produced only modest progress in the negotiations toward a global deal to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. The sluggish pace of the weekend discussions suggests that 2010 may turn out to be a painfully slow year for the multilateral climate talks.