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US warned on illegal cotton subsidies

By Frances Williams in Geneva

Published: December 18 2007 18:53 | Last updated: December 18 2007 18:53

The US must do more to eliminate billions of dollars in illegal subsidies to its cotton farmers, a World Trade Organisation panel ruled on Tuesday in the latest assault on lavish US farm support.

The ruling, which confirmed a confidential interim judgment by the panel last July, said the US had not done enough to scrap payouts to cotton producers condemned by the WTO in 2005 in a landmark verdict following a complaint by Brazil.

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