The Doha round cannot, because Mr Bush's fast-track negotiating authority, which prevents a trade deal being unpicked by Congress, expires in June 2007.

但是多哈回合的谈判则不能。因为布什要在2007年7月其贸易谈判权到期之前将协议交由国会讨论，就必须在今年年底之前达成协议。

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American farmers, keen to export, have been lobbying for a renewal of fast-track negotiating authority.

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Also, it would have secured by now the fast-track negotiating authority so essential to the viability of future free-trade initiatives.

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Although nobody yet talks of it publicly, one popular revised deadline is 2007, the year that Mr Bush's fast-track negotiating authority expires.

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