Although Joint EU-US leadership and partnership in itself is not sufficient to make a global trade round succeed, it is an indispensable prerequisite. At the Paris Mini-Ministerial Paris in May it was the EU and the US that jointly brokered an agreement on Ad Valorem Equivalents (AVEs) that gave new impetus to agricultural negotiations.
Lors de la mini-réunion ministérielle de mai, à Paris, ce sont l’Union européenne et les États-Unis qui ont négocié conjointement un accord sur les équivalents ad valorem (EAV) qui a donné un nouvel élan aux négociations agricoles.