Several countries at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) criticised the new US farm bill on Monday for raising farm support when the WTO is trying to reach a deal to cut agricultural subsidies.
"A few of them had a go at the new farm bill," said New Zealand's WTO ambassador Crawford Falconer, after WTO members met to review the revised proposals he issued last week for a farm deal in the WTO's Doha round. The countries criticising the $289 billion US farm bill, passed last Thursday and overriding a presidential veto, included Burkina Faso.