The Global Dairy Alliance is calling the suspension of the Doha Round negotiations “a major blow.”

According to a GDA release, President Osvaldo Cappellini of Latin America says it is especially disappointing that commitments already agreed in the Round now have to be placed on hold. For dairy exporters the elimination of export subsidies by 2013, which had been agreed, would have removed a major distortion in international dairy trade – a long awaited goal.

The Global Dairy Alliance includes the dairy industries of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, New Zealand and Uruguay.