NewzThe Seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17) commenced on Monday in Yerevan, Armenia. The international summit brings together global stakeholders with the primary challenge of accelerating international commitments to protect nature and biodiversity ahead of the target year 2030.
Simultaneously, political and economic developments in the Dominican Republic have drawn domestic attention regarding international trade negotiations. Leonel Fernández, president of the opposition party Fuerza del Pueblo, asserted that the government lacks the moral authority to negotiate trade conditions concerning rice with the United States under the Free Trade Agreement.
In response to these trade dynamics, representatives from the domestic rice sector have expressed support for the repeal of decree 693-24. The sector's stakeholders are currently anticipating and backing a renegotiation of tariff treatments for rice under the framework of the DR-CAFTA agreement.
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