watmore will it ta ke yet. but i think... watmore will it take for you to declare?untermeasures are not in place yet —— what more. there are announcements. that does not mean we should downplay that. you don't want to be in the war. we want to avoid the war. everything we can do to avoid being in that situation, that is what we must be doing at this point. the world trade organization chief speaking to. you can watch the full interview on hardtalk at 10:30am hong kong time. farmers fair amount of their fruit and vegetables because the country lacks adequate transportation and storage facilities. but how bad is the situation? we have this report. this is a small farm in southern india produces 500 kilograms of tomatoes every day. his biggest challenge, keeping them fresh enough to get to the market. most of the produce used to rofes because it was stored in an open space. about one year ago he found a solution. the cold storage gives a longer life to the crop. the life gets extended up to about six or seven days from three days. he pays around $15 every month for his

watmore would it take for you to declare? the measures and countermeasures are not in place. still conversations ongoing, negotiations are ongoing. there are announcements. that doesn't mean we should downplay that. you don't want to be in the war. we want to avoid the wall. if everything we can do to avoid being in that situation, that is what we need to be doing at this point.“ you say what is the brink of a trade war becomes a full fledged trade war, what is that neither the global economy? it will mean a severe impact on the global economy. we begin to see the economy coming back and growing at healthier rates. global trade is part of that as. it is beginning to pick up. a 3—point percentage expansion rate at this point in time. if you have that kind of thing, it would go down very quickly, i would suppose. and how far? by how far it would depend on how big that war is. if it is limited to steel and aluminium, that is wanting. if we are talking about hundreds of thousands of products, it isa hundreds of thousands of products, it is a completely different thing and the imp