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Doha Round: ‘New texts on market access, agriculture in 2 weeks’
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New Delhi, Nov. 5 The prospect of a successful conclusion to the Doha Development Agenda Talks in the WTO is bright with member countries engaging in serious negotiations in the last couple of months.
The “landing zone” for taking the Doha Round towards a successful conclusion looks very close, according to Mr Harsha V. Singh, Deputy Director General of the WTO.
While speaking at a session organised by the Confederation of the Indian Industry, Mr Singh said that the chairs of agriculture and non-agricultural market access (NAMA) in the WTO will come up with new texts in about two weeks, which would take into account the concerns raised by member countries in the recent weeks and is expected to move the round forward.
Various aspects
A package of texts covering the various aspects — agriculture, NAMA, trade facilitation and rules — is likely to be tabled by November-end thereby providing an impetus to concluding the round.
In the area of agriculture, Mr Singh said that the two areas of concerns for India — special products and special safeguard mechanism — are also getting addressed.
The current WTO negotiations reflects the fact that the concerns of the developing countries in terms of more policy space, lower levels of obligation, market access of products of interest, better tariff-quota, reduction in the tariff-peaks and tariff-escalation and non-tariff measures are fully taken care of.
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