Water

Ten Ways to Fix Agricultural Trade

Excerpted from Sailing Close to the Wind: Navigating the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial. The WTO Agreement on Agriculture has failed rural communities around the world. Its successor, now under negotiation, is set to perpetuate the failure. The following proposals are a basis for a new agricultural trade system.

Policy Coherence and Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Lessons for the Doha Round

Excerpted from Sailing Close to the Wind: Navigating the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial. According to a World Trade Organization secretariat note in October 2004, the primary objective of cooperation and policy coherence among the WTO, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund for the Doha Round negotiations is to expand market access opportunities.

EU offer in Doha World Trade Talks, October 2005

New EU offer in WTO Doha Round negotiations. The offer comes in response to several proposals from the U.S, G20, G33, G10 and Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group on WTO agriculture negotiations. The proposal makes any agriculture concessions strictly conditional on concessions from WTO members in industrial products, services, geographical indicators and rules.

Letter from Commissioner Mandelson to WTO Director General, Pascal Lamy, October 2005

Letter from Commissioner Mandelson to WTO Director General, Pascal Lamy expressing concerns about the lack of progress in the services and industrial product negotiating areas of the negotiations. This is in response to pressure from WTO members on the EC to give concessions in agriculture.