Welcoming today's action plan EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy added: 'Commodity dependent developing countries are particularly disadvantaged in their efforts to reap the benefits of a more open international trading system. The case of African cotton producers is a clear example of this. Market access is important and has to be improved in a number of major markets, including developing ones. But trade alone is clearly not a sufficient answer as we have witnessed in the case of African cotton, which already has full market access in the EU..
L'accès au marché est important et doit être amélioré en ce qui concerne un certain nombre de grands marchés, y compris ceux des pays en développement, mais il est clair que le commerce, à lui seul, ne saurait constituer une réponse suffisante, comme nous avons pu nous en apercevoir dans le cas du coton africain, qui jouit déjà du plein accès au marché de l'Union européenne.
