Chair of the Farm Leaders and National Farmers’ Federation (Australia) President, David Jochinke, has stressed the importance for MC13 to make much needed progress on key areas of reform such as domestic support, tariff and non-tariff barriers, and the dispute settlement mechanism.
Farm Leaders reiterated their support to redouble efforts to reduce trade- and production- distorting domestic support measures, supporting the Cairns Group’s proposal to substantially cap and reduce such support entitlements.
“Farmers want to compete on a level playing field, but in reality, many of our…