http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051218/ap_on_bi_ge/wto_draft_agreementHONG KONG - A final draft of a World Trade Organization agreement proposed Sunday that all nations end agricultural export subsidies by 2013 in a breakthrough that paves the way for an agreement from the six-day talks.
The revised draft, coming after all-night negotiations between delegates of key member nations, also calls on wealthy nations to allow duty-free and quota-free privileges to at least 97 percent of products exported by the so-called least developed countries by 2008.
In addition, the draft retained an earlier proposal that rich countries eliminate all export subsidies on cotton in 2006.
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