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MINISTERIAL CONFERENCES
Briefing notes for the Ninth Ministerial Conference
These briefing notes are designed to provide background information on issues revelant to the Ministerial Conference. While every effort has been made to ensure the contents are accurate, they are not legal interpretations of the WTO agreements, nor do they prejudice member governments’ positions.
What is a Ministerial Conference?
Director-General抯 letter to journalists
9th Ministerial Conference issues:
- Trade facilitation
- Agriculture negotiations
- Cotton
- Least-developed countries
- Monitoring mechanism
- Small, vulnerable economies
- Yemen's accession
- E-commerce
- 揘on-violation?in intellectual property
Plurilateral issues that may be taken up in Bali:
- Information Technology Agreement (ITA) and product expansion negotiations
- Government Procurement Agreement
WTO current issues:
- WTO accessions ?state of play
- Agriculture — implementing current reforms
- Anti-dumping, safeguards, subsidies
- Development and technical assistance
- Dispute settlement
- Intellectual property
- Regional trade agreements
- Food safety, animal and plant health (SPS)
- Trade and environment
- Trade monitoring
- Trade in services