Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- List of acronyms
- PART I overview of domestic support issues and WTO rules
- PART II Developed countries: have high levels of support come down?
- PART III Developing countries: will low levels of support rise?
- PART IV Looking forward: can fair markets be achieved?
- Appendix A Domestic support provisions of the Agreement on Agriculture
- Appendix B Domestic support provisions of the Doha draft modalities
- Index
Appendix B - Domestic support provisions of the Doha draft modalities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 April 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- List of acronyms
- PART I overview of domestic support issues and WTO rules
- PART II Developed countries: have high levels of support come down?
- PART III Developing countries: will low levels of support rise?
- PART IV Looking forward: can fair markets be achieved?
- Appendix A Domestic support provisions of the Agreement on Agriculture
- Appendix B Domestic support provisions of the Doha draft modalities
- Index
Summary
Editors' note: Appendix B provides the key provisions of the Doha draft modalities as revised in December 2008 relevant to the domestic support disciplines. The full text and others under negotiation in the Doha Round are available on the WTO website. We exercise some judgment for brevity of the appendix. The introductory comments of the chairman related to the entire draft modalities for agriculture are included for context. Then only Section I, Annex A and Annex B related specifically to domestic support are reproduced, along with the subsections of Annex M (Monitoring and Surveillance) related to domestic support notifications and review.
World Trade Organization
TN/AG/W/4/Rev.4, 6 December 2008
Committee on Agriculture Special Session
I think we have made progress since July, and the attached text, together with the separate papers, are an attempt to capture that.
Within the text itself there are a number of square brackets that have been deleted. It is clear that on a number of those, there cannot be said to be formal agreement. But, in earlier versions of the drafts where there were no square brackets, there was not always formal agreement either. Everything is conditional in the deepest sense in any case. But the changes made at this time now represent a best estimate of where there is additional good reason to believe there would prove to be consensus if everything was to come together as a modalities package.
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- WTO Disciplines on Agricultural SupportSeeking a Fair Basis for Trade, pp. 451 - 483Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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