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See also:
> An outline of the WTO’s Agriculture Agreement in the section
on agriculture in “Understanding the WTO”
> Detailed information on agriculture in the
WTO
> Fact sheets: “The boxes”
in domestic support and Tariff reduction
methods
> Detailed information on the agriculture
negotiations (including the draft “framework” and “modalities”, proposals and many statements)
> Information on the Doha Development Agenda mandate |
Contents
Introduction
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> The present reform programme
> The current negotiations
> The objective: continuing reductions and other issues
The negotiations: from 2000 to now > back to top
> Phases 1 and 2: March 2000-March 2002
> Preparations for ‘modalities’: March 2002–July 2003
> Cancún deadlock: September 2003
> The July 2004 package and August decision
The issues: Exports > back to top
> Export
subsidies and competition
> August 2004 framework: export subsidies and competition
> After the framework: technical work on export subsidies and competition
> Export restrictions and taxes
> August 2004 framework: export restrictions and taxes
The issues: Market access > back to top
> Market access:
Tariffs and tariff quotas
> Market access: special agricultural safeguards (SSGs)
> Other Market
access issues
> August 2004 framework: market access
> After the framework: technical work on market access
> Visualized: approaches to tariff reduction formulas
The issues: Domestic support > back to top
> Domestic support: Amber, Blue and Green Boxes
> August 2004 framework: domestic support
> After the framework: technical work on domestic support
Other issues > back to top
> Developing countries
> August 2004 framework: developing countries
> Decision on net food-importing developing countries
> August 2004 framework: net food-importing developing countries
> Transition economies
> August 2004 framework: transition economies and new members
> ‘Non-trade’ concerns: agriculture can serve many purposes
> August 2004 framework: non-trade concerns
> The peace clause
> August 2004 framework: the peace clause
> The Cotton Initiative
> August 2004 framework: cotton
> Cotton Sub-Committee
In a nutshell > back to top
> Phase 1(23-24 March 2000 to 26-27 March 2001)
> Phase 2 (26-27 March 2001 to 4-7 February 2002)
> The Doha mandate (from the Doha Ministerial Conference, November 2001)
> Preparations for ‘modalities’ and Cancún (26 March 2002 to September 2003)
> The July 2004 package (September 2003 to 1 August 2004)
> The post-framework “modalities” phase (September 2004–)
> The proposals received in Phase 1
> Technical submissions received in Phase 1
> The proposals received in Phase 2
> Technical submissions received during Phase 2
> The Cancún ‘framework’ proposals
> Countries, alliances and proposals
> Key to the groups
Data
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> World trade in agricultural products, 2003
> Top 15 agricultural exporters and importers, 2003
> Agricultural products’ share in trade, by region, 2003
> How much do they spend?
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