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AGRICULTURE NEGOTIATIONS: BACKGROUNDER The proposals received in Phase 2
Most of these are proposals or elaborations of Phase 1 proposals. A few are questions on others’ proposals. Most are off-the-record “non-papers”.
UPDATED 1 DECEMBER 2004
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This briefing document explains current agricultural issues raised before and in the current negotiations. It has been prepared by the Information and Media Relations Division of the WTO Secretariat to help public understanding about the agriculture negotiations. It is not an official record of the negotiations.
Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Kenya, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Zimbabwe: Tariff rate quotas
EU: Tariff rate quotas administration
Japan: Questions on TRQ administration
Switzerland: Administration of tariff rate quotas (TRQ) — the case for auctioning
Tariffs
Australia: Tariffs
Japan: Tariff Quota Commitment
Japan: Questions on tariff
MERCOSUR, Chile and Bolivia: Market access: ensuring the continuity of the reform process
Amber box
Australia: Amber box support
EU: Amber box
Japan: Questions on Amber Box
Special and differential treatment
Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya,
Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Venezuela and Zimbabwe: Special and differential
treatment in agriculture
— “establishing the objectives”
Export subsidies
Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Suriname: Domestic support and export competition
Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Venezuela and Zimbabwe: Export subsidies
Switzerland: Export subsidies: modalities for further commitments to reduce export subsidies
Export credits
Australia: Export credits
EU: Export credits
Japan: Export enhancing measures — export credits
Japan: Questions on export credits
United States: Export credit guarantee programmes
State trading enterprises
Japan
: State trading enterprises
Japan
: Questions on state trading enterprises
United States
: Disciplines on export state trading enterprises
United States
: Disciplines on import state trading enterprises
Export restrictions
Japan: Export prohibitions and restrictions
Japan: Questions on export restrictions
United States: Disciplines on export taxes
Food security
Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Kenya, Nicaragua, Nigeria,
Pakistan, Peru, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and Zimbabwe: Food security
Japan: International environment surrounding agricultural trade and food security
Japan: Questions on food security
Peru: Food security
United States: Food security
Food safety
EU: Food safety
Japan: Consumers’ concern on food safety and quality
Rural development
Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Kenya, Nicaragua, Pakistan,
Sri Lanka, and Zimbabwe: Rural development
Cyprus: Rural development
Japan: Importance of agriculture in rural areas (rural development)
Japan: Questions on rural development
Norway: Rural development
Geographical indications
EU: Geographical indications
Japan: Questions on geographical indications
Switzerland: Geographical indications and agriculture
Green box
Argentina: Green box measures: approach for a work programme
Cyprus: Green box
Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Kenya, Nicaragua, Pakistan,
Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe: Green box
EU: Green box
Japan: Domestic support (Green Box)
Japan: Questions on Green Box
Namibia: Green box measures
Blue box
Cairns Group: Blue box
Japan: Questions on Blue Box
Special agricultural safeguard
Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, the Philippines and Thailand: Special and differential treatment for developing countries: transitional instruments to expeditiously countervail subsidized imports
(SDCM)
Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Kenya, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Senegal, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe: “An appropriate safeguard mechanism for developing countries”
Japan: A new safeguard measure
Japan: Questions on special agricultural safeguard
Namibia: Special agricultural safeguard
Norway: Special safeguards
Switzerland: WTO Agreement on Agriculture —
special safeguard
Environment
Cairns Group: Environment
Japan: The role of agriculture to provide environmental benefits
Norway: Environment
Japan: Questions on environment
Trade preferences
African Group: Trade preferences
EU: Tariff preferences for developing countries
Namibia: Trade preferences
Paraguay: Trade preferences — Appropriate tariff treatment for the exports of
landlocked countries
Swaziland: Trade preferences
Japan: Questions on trade preferences
Food aid
7 developing countries (Cuba, Egypt, Grenada, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Uganda): Food aid
EU: Food aid
MERCOSUR (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay): Food aid
Namibia: Food aid
Norway: Food aid
Japan: A possible framework of International food stockholding
Japan: Questions on food aid
Consumer information and labelling
EU: Consumer information and labelling
Switzerland: Consumer information and labelling
Switzerland: Welfare of breeding cattle — example of a
non-trade concern
Japan: Questions on consumer information and labelling
Sectoral initiatives
Canada: Sectoral initiatives
Development Box
9 developing countries (Cuba, Dominican Rep, El Salvador, Honduras, Kenya,
Nigeria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe): The Development Box
Japan: Questions on Development Box
Mauritius: Development Box
Switzerland: Building a Development Box in the WTO rules on agriculture?
Single commodity producers
African Group: Proposal on trade in agricultural commodities and the concerns of
single commodity exporters (SCEs)
Japan: Questions on single commodity producers/small island developing countries
Mauritius: Single commodity exporters (SCEs)
Small island developing countries
Dominica, Fiji, Jamaica, Madagascar, Mauritius, Papua New Guinea, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago: Small island developing states
Mauritius: Small island developing states
Special and differential treatment
African Group, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Kenya, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka: Special and differential provisions
Bolivia: Special and differential treatment: alternative crops
CARICOM: Special and differential treatment
Colombia: Special and differential treatment and the substitution of illicit crops
India: Special and differential treatment for developing countries in the Agreement on Agriculture
Mauritius: Special and differential treatment
Additional issues
CARICOM: Non-trade concerns
CARICOM: Food aid
CARICOM: Green Box subsidies
CARICOM: A special agricultural safeguard mechanism for developing countries and small developing economies
CARICOM: WTO negotiations on agriculture —
trade preferences
Mauritius: Green Box
New Zealand: Tariff quota expansion
Technical submissions received during Phase 2
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Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovak Republic:
Aspects of non-trade concerns in (post) transition economies —
5 December 2001
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