1. Various of Copacabana Palace Hotel 2. Wide shot of meeting between the United States Trade Representative Susan Schwab and Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim 4. Medium shot of Susan Schwab during the meeting 5. Wide shot of meeting, pull in to medium of Amorim and the Brazilian delegation 6. Pull back from Schwab to wide of both delegations 7. Schwab and Amorim arrive at news conference, sit at table 8. Pan from audience to Schwab 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Susan Schwab, US Trade Representative: "Brazil and the United States are both leaders in this effort to help revive the Doha Round and we see our meeting today as the beginning of a process that we hope our colleagues will also be undertaking, We expect our colleagues in other countries to be undertaking." 10. Cutaway shot of cameraman 11. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Celso Amorim, Brazilian Foreign Minister: "As we said - as I said at least - in five to seven or eight months, I don't know the exact length of time. This may be a reasonable horizon for us to think in this kind of advance (the end of the Doha Round). Now, evidently this will not happen if there is no preparatory work (from the other countries)." 12. Schwab and Amorim leaving the news conference STORYLINE: US and Brazilian trade negotiators said on Saturday they believe a breakthrough is still possible for a global trade treaty following the collapse of World Trade Organisation talks earlier this week. Many meetings will be required between trade ministers from the 149-nation WTO to regain momentum on negotiations, but a deal could be sealed within five to seven months, said US Trade Representative Susan Schwab and Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim after their two-hour meeting. The talks fell apart in Geneva after rich and poor nations failed to reach an accord amid deep divisions over two key stumbling blocks. First the farm subsidies developed nations give their farmers which gives them an unfair advantage over farmers in the developing world and second, the need to increase market access for developing countries. Amorim and Schwab didn't say whether they discussed those topics in detail, but both stressed that the United States and Brazil - key players in the WTO talks - are committed to taking more steps to reaching a global treaty aimed at slashing the subsidies and increasing market access. Schwab and Amorim said they would encourage trade ministers to determine why the talks in Geneva broke down this week, and what can be done to get them back on track. "Brazil and the United States are both leaders in this effort to help revive the Doha Round and we see our meeting today as the beginning of a process that we hope our colleagues will also be undertaking," Schwab said. Schwab says the United States is not interested in embarking on negotiations that would lead to a watered-down agreement that some have said might now be possible. Instead she prefers to press for a global trade treaty with sweeping trade liberalisation ramifications. The two met two days after WTO chief Pascal Lamy urged the organisation's members to avoid playing the "blame game" over the collapse of the Doha round of talks, named after the capital of Qatar where the negotiations started five years ago. Lamy was apparently referring to the European Union and the United States, which have spent much of this week blaming each other. The EU says Washington derailed the talks by not offering deeper cuts in subsidies paid to farmers. The United States, meanwhile, criticised Europe for declining to ease foreign access to its agricultural markets. Poor nations claimed the international trading system was weighted against them because rich nations' farm markets remained highly protected. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/14d459108ff819e58f1b9176358345b0 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

• published: 24 Jul 2015
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