start talks ahead of the Hong Kong meeting and he hoped the United States and European Union could make headway on agriculture next week. He also said it was unclear if the two sides would find a common agenda in those bilateral talks. The WTO talks to free up global trade should have ended in 2004 but have fallen even further behind over the past year amid differences on how to cut farm subsidies and tariffs. Talks on opening new markets for industrial goods and services have made little progress. --More 2132 Local Time 1832 GMT
