e G-21 countries, hope to compete
             against financial powers such as the European Union and the United States,
             who can afford huge subsidies for their agricultural products' It is not
             anything extra that we ask for, but only what has been fairly discussed and
             Another issue that greatly concerns the G-21 countries and that we
             have to make a statement of is the problem of steel products and the new,
             higher tariffs that the United States have found appropriate to raise in
             order to protect their steel industry. We shall not go into the reasons
             that have lead to this and we shall not mention the lobby from powerful
             companies, but we have to ask ourselves: what is the point of continuous
             negotiations for lowering taxes on imported products when, on the other
             hands, the likes of the United States can, by themselves, raise taxes on a
             product that is essential to many of the G-21 countries industrial national
             production' We are not alone in our questions: high officials from the
             IMF, the WTO and the World Bank, including Horst Kohler, Mike Moore and
             James Wolfensohn, have asked themselves and
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