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Japan says no to freeing up ag trade

TOUGH TALK Before the WTO negotiations have even started, Tokyo has let it be known that it's not buying into a plan to reduce tariffs on its agricutural products

AFP , TOKYO

No draft proposals are offered in the outline text on the longstanding and controversial problem of ensuring that patent rules do not bar poor countries without their own pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity from access to cheaper medicines.

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