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Building
Developing Countries' Convergence on Tropical and Diversification
Products
Organised
by ICTSD
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Venue:
World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), Room C.2, Geneva,
Switzerland
1 March 2007, 14h00-16h30
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Description
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Description
The objective of the meeting was to
continue exploring the potential for common ground between those
developing countries that are active proponents of the fullest
liberalisation of trade in tropical and diversification products
and others which have long benefited from trade preferences for
these same commodities.
The July 2004 Framework commits Members
to pursue the "full implementation of the long-standing commitment
to achieve the fullest liberalisation of trade" in tropical
farm products as well as 'diversification products.' Members still
need to identify which products will qualify, and agree on their
treatment.
In this context, discussions was
initiated with the presentations of two ICTSD's papers.
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The
ACP Experience of Preference Erosion in the Banana and Sugar
Sectors and Possible Policy Responses to Assist in Adjusting
to Trade Changes, by Paul Goodison of the European Research
Office. The report seeks to review in broad terms the experience
of preference erosion in the ACP banana and sugar sectors. It
develops a typology of stages of preference erosion, reviews
the experience of the policy response and seeks to outline the
types of response measures which could be supported as part
of a comprehensive response to the challenge of preference erosion
emerging in ACP-EU trade.
Power
point presentation by Paul Goodison
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A
Comparison of the Barriers Faced by Latin American and ACP Countries'
Exports of Tropical Products, by Jean-Christophe Bureau
of the Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity
College Dublin, Anne-Celia Disdier, INRA-AgroParisTech, Grignon,
France, and Priscila Ramos, ADEPRINA and CEPII, Paris. The report
seeks to shed light on the actual market access granted to both
group of countries so as to identify the sectors where both
groups would have a major interest in requesting fuller liberalisation
in the WTO.
Powerpoint presentation
by Jean-Christophe Bureau
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