Delegates from 17 WTO members negotiating a tariff-cutting deal on environmental goods completed another reading of a compiled list of over 650 tariff lines and more than 2000 products during a meeting held last week in Geneva, Switzerland, with sources confirming progress in identifying which products have broad support for including in a final deal. The occasion also reportedly helped identify other products where further discussion is needed. A similar approach will continue for the next session, scheduled for the last week of July, in a bid to provide further clarification on the support for various products. Andrew Martin, Counsellor at the Australian mission to the WTO who chairs the talks in his personal capacity, will then provide participants in August with a draft list of goods that appear to have garnered the most consensus, trade sources also confirmed. Participants in the plurilateral Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA) negotiations, as the talks are formally known, each submitted various product nominations in April, which the chair subsequently compiled into a master list. “We are now entering a key phase of the negotiations. Countries have made their proposals and we are now discussing those proposals between us,” EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström told...