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Completing the Doha Round
Who Needs to Do What to Ensure
Success?
NFTC Session
WTO Public Symposium
April 20, 2005
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Completing the Doha Round – Who Needs to Do What
1. A snapshot of Canada and
Trade
2. About the Canadian Agri-Food
Trade Alliance
3. What is Success?
4. Who Needs to Do What?
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Canada Is:
• Highly dependent on trade
• 40% of GDP from exports
• 1 in 3 jobs
• 90% of Canada’s farmers depend on
international markets
• 7% of Canada’s GDP from agriculture
• A leader in world agriculture trade
• 3rd largest exporter, 5th largest importer
• largest exporter of canola, flax, canola oil,
canary seed, oats, pulse crops
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CAFTA Is:
•
A coalition of producers, processors,
exporters and input suppliers
• 80% of Canada’s agricultural exports
• over 60% of farm cash receipts
• Dedicated to international trade
liberalization
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What Is Success?
• Punta del Este goal: “further liberalization
and expansion of world trade to the benefit of
all countries”
• Marrakesh Goal: “the substantial reduction of
tariffs and other barriers to trade and to the
elimination of discriminatory treatment in
international trade relations”
• Doha Mandate: “to maintain the process of
reform and liberalization of trade policies …..
to reject the use of protectionism”
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What Is Success?
• Average agriculture tariff - 60%
• Peaks as high as 800%
• Developed countries spend over $US 300
billion annually on subsidies
• 25 countries can spend up to $12 billion
in export subsidies alone
• Trade distorting domestic subsidies
cause $US 29 billion in distortion
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What Is Success?
• Elimination of all forms of export subsidies
• No more than 5 years
• Substantial reductions in trade distorting
support
• Product specific basis
• Criteria to prevent box shifting
• Substantial and real increases in market
access
• Cuts into applied tariffs, reduces tariff
peaks, expands TRQs, eliminates
escalation
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Completing the Doha Round – Who Needs to Do What
Who Needs to Do What?
• All Must honour commitment made in
Doha
EU Must:
• Agree to early elimination of export subsidies
• Support domestic support “box” criteria
• Commit to real market access expansion
• Be realistic on G.I. demands
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Who Needs to Do What?
• All Must honour commitment made in
Doha
U.S. Must:
• Accept substantial disciplines on food aid and
export credit
• Support domestic support “box” criteria
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Who Needs to Do What?
• All Must honour commitment made in
Doha
G20 Must:
• Maintain aggressive position on subsidies
• Accept some disciplines on leading developing
countries (eg. Brazil in agriculture)
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Who Needs to Do What?
• All Must honour commitment made in
Doha
Cairns Group Must:
• Re-Assert itself as a leader for substantial
reform
• Work closely with the G20
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Who Needs to Do What?
• All Must honour commitment made in
Doha
Canada Must:
• Re-Assert itself as a leader for substantial
reform
• Negotiate aggressively in all areas of the
negotiations
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If Countries Honour the Doha Mandate and
Remain True to the 2004 Framework:
No Deal is a Bad Deal
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CANADIAN AGRI-FOOD TRADE ALLIANCE
Suite 308 151 Slater Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5H3
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