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Senate ag group, farm groups pan WTO draft

 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new negotiating text for a World Trade Organization deal on agriculture contains "substantial loopholes" that would limit U.S. access to foreign markets, a bipartisan group of 22 U.S. lawmakers said Monday. (link)

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