Washington - Members of the US House Agriculture Committee will travel to Egypt, Italy and Spain this summer to promote agricultural trade, a committee spokesman said.
The committee's chairman, Oregon Republican Rep. Bob Smith, will lead the group on the trip August 17 - 31. It is still being decided who else will go on the trip and which foreign government officials will participate, the spokesman said.
The lawmakers plan to discuss several topics, including goals for the world agricultural trade talks that begin in late 1999, the implementation of a World Trade Organization decision that mandates the European Union to open its markets to hormone-treated beef in less than a year and the EU's progress to bring its banana import rules in line with a WTO ruling.
In Italy and Spain lawmakers will address US wheat and poultry exports with Egyptian officials, the spokesman said.
Members of the House Agriculture Committee have traveled to other countries to promote trade, including Mexico, Canada and the Philippines.
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