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AGRICULTURE: NEGOTIATIONS
Chairperson抯 working documents November 2007–January 2008
Updated: 4 January 2008
Ambassador Crawford Falconer, chairperson of the agriculture negotiations, sent members eight new working documents ?on market access ?on 4 January 2008, bringing the total since November to 16. After the chairperson circulated his revised draft 搈odalities?paper in July and August, the talks entered their most intensive phase so far. The working documents reflect the progress made. They are designed to focus the discussions and help the chairperson prepare the next revised draft 搈odalities?paper.
> Original
mandate:
Article 20
> The Doha mandate
> The Doha mandate explained
See also:
> Negotiations gateway
> 2007 revised draft modalities
> 2004 agreed framework
> 2005 Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration
> More on the
modalities phase
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The working documents
Market access (January 2008)
16. Market access ?recently acceded members (RAMs), 4 January 2008
> Download: 1 page in Word (35KB), pdf 14KB)
15. Special Products, 4 January 2008
> Download: 3 pages in Word (57KB), pdf 28KB)
14. Special agricultural safeguard (SSG), 4 January 2008
> Download: 1 pages in Word (36KB), pdf 16KB)
13. Tariff quotas, 4 January 2008
> Download: 2 pages in Word (38KB), pdf 19KB)
12. Tariff simplification, 4 January 2008
> Download: 1 page in Word (35KB), pdf 18KB)
11. Tariff escalation, 4 January 2008
> Download: 2 pages in Word (44KB), pdf 18KB)
10. Sensitive products, 4 January 2008
> Download: 4 pages in Word (49KB), pdf 31KB)
9. Tiered formula for tariff reductions, 4 January 2008
> Download: 2 pages in Word (45KB), pdf 21KB)
Domestic support (December 2007)
8. Blue box, 21 December 2007
> Download: 3 pages in Word (40KB), pdf 23KB)
7. De minimis, 21 December 2007
> Download: 1 page in Word (32KB), pdf 16KB)
6. Final bound total AMS: A tiered formula, 21 December 2007
> Download: 3 pages in Word (39KB), pdf 21KB)
5. Overall reduction of trade-distorting domestic support: A tiered formula, 21 December 2007
> Download: 2 pages in Word (33KB), pdf 17KB)
Export competition (November 2007)
4. Main provisions,
12 November 2007
A fourth
working paper dealing with export competition, this time focusing on
the main provisions on export subsidies and competition in the
July-August 2007 revised draft
modalities.
> Download: 2 pages in Word (33KB),
pdf
24KB)
1-3. Export finance, 6 November 2007
The three working papers deal with
export finance (credit, credit guarantees and insurance), state
trading enterprises and food aid. They are
draft legal texts, further revisions to annexes D, E and F of the
July-August 2007 revised draft
modalities. The three were circulated in a single file.
> Download: 9 pages in
Word (103KB),
pdf (57KB)
How are these issues being negotiated?
In this phase of the
negotiations, the hard talking takes place in meetings of
37 representative delegations, a more manageable size than
sessions of the full membership. The process is controlled
by meetings of the full membership and is chaired by the
talks?chairperson, Ambassador Crawford Falconer of New
Zealand. The 37 meet in Room E at the WTO and the sessions
are sometimes called 揜oom E?meetings. All coalitions are
represented to ensure the talks are inclusive and
transparent.
The 37 are (from January 2008):
Argentina (Cairns Group, G-20), Australia
(Cairns Group coordinator), Benin (Cotton-4,
African Group, least-developed, Africa-Caribbean-Pacific),
Brazil (G-20 coordinator, also Cairns), Canada
(Cairns), Chad (Cotton-4 coordinator, also African
Group, least-developed, ACP), China (G-33, G-20,
recent new member), Colombia (Cairns, tropical
products group), Costa Rica (tropical products
coordinator, also Cairns), C魌e d捍voire (African
Group coordinator, also ACP), Cuba (G-33, small and
vulnerable economies), Dominican Republic
(small-vulnerable economies coordinator, also G-33),
Ecuador (tropical products, recent new member),
Egypt (G-20, African Group), EU, India (G-33,
G-20), Indonesia (G-33 coordinator, also G-20,
Cairns), Jamaica (ACP coordinator, also G-33,
small-vulnerable), Japan (G-10), Kenya (G-33,
African, ACP), Rep. Korea (G-33, G-10), Lesotho
(least-developed countries coordinator, also African
Group, ACP), Mauritius (G-33, ACP, African),
Malaysia (Cairns), Mexico (G-20), New
Zealand (Cairns), Norway (G-10), Pakistan
(Cairns, G-20, G-33), Paraguay (Cairns, G-20,
tropical products, small-vulnerable), Philippines
(G-33, G-20, Cairns), Switzerland (G-10
coordinator), Chinese Taipei (recent new members
coordinator, also G?0), Thailand (Cairns, G-20),
Turkey (G-33), Uruguay (Cairns, G-20), US,
Venezuela (G-33, G-20).
(Previously, during 2007: Lesotho as least developed countries coordinator; Panama as recent new members coordinator; Uganda as African Group coordinator.)