Draft Agriculture Modalities for the Doha Round: Taking stock of the Trade and Development Implications
12th March 2008 • Co-organised with IPC and IFPRI
The publication of Ambassador Falconer’s revised modalities draft on 8 February is a critical step in the Doha Round. WTO Members must now reflect on the extent to which the proposed modalities live up to the mandated objectives of the Round, take stock of probable gains and losses, and examine potential trade-offs between negotiating areas. By providing a forum for stakeholders to explore empirical assessments of the implications of the draft text for specific products, from specific exporters and in specific markets, ICTSD, IPC and IFPRI hope that WTO Members will be able to reach informed decisions on the next steps to take in the negotiations and enable a range of stakeholders to understand better the issues at stake.
Additional analysis of domestic support notifications for eight countries (EU, U.S., Japan, Norway, Brazil, China, India, and the Philippines) was presented at a conference at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) March 14-15, 2008 “Improving WTO Transparency: Shadow Domestic Support Notifications.”