Colin Teese, former Assistant Secretary in the Department of Trade, looks at the recent meeting of the world’s major agricultural exporting nations in Cairns, following the failure of the recent Doha Trade Round to open up world markets.Despite all efforts to talk it up, the recent meeting of the Cairns Group in North Queensland produced no apparently useful outcome. Certainly it did nothing to re-energise the Doha Round of trade negotiations to the advantage of exporters of temperate agricultur…
