美国贸易代表波特曼10月10日提出一份削减农业补贴、降低农产品进口关税的新建议, 以推动世界贸易组织农业谈判走出僵局,并促使今年12月在香港举行的世贸组织部长级会议就多哈回合整轮谈判达成初步协议。波特曼当天在瑞士苏黎世主持召开了一次WTO小型部长会议,邀请了包括欧盟、澳大利亚、巴西、印度、中国、加拿大、日本在内的十几个世贸组织主要成员的20多位贸易部长和农业部长,并在会上提出了美国的新建议。根据这份建议,美国将削减60％的农业补贴。但波特曼同时表示,欧盟和日本的农业补贴应各削减80％,因为欧盟和日本支付的农业补贴比美国多,即使削减80％,欧盟和日本可支付的农业补贴还相当于美国的两倍。美国还建议未来5年大幅削减农产品进口关税,使富国 U.S. trade representative Portman put forward a new proposal on October 10 to cut agricultural subsidies and reduce import tariffs on agricultural products so as to push the WTO negotiations on agriculture out of the impasse and push for the WTO Ministerial Conference held in Hong Kong in December this year Doha round round negotiations reached a preliminary agreement. Portman hosted a meeting of ministers of the WTO on the same day in Zurich, Switzerland, inviting more than 20 trade ministers and officials from more than a dozen major WTO members including the EU, Australia, Brazil, India, China, Canada and Japan Minister, and proposed the new U.S. proposal at the meeting. According to this proposal, the United States will cut its agricultural subsidies by 60%. But Portman also said agricultural subsidies in the EU and Japan should each be cut by 80% because the EU and Japan pay more for agricultural subsidies than the United States, and even with a 80% cut, the EU and Japan can pay agricultural subsidies equivalent to those of the United States Times The United States also suggests that the import tariffs on agricultural products should be drastically reduced in the next five years so that the rich countries will make money