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WORKSHOP
ON WTO NEGOTIATIONS AND NIGERIA: NEGOTIATION OPTIONS IN
AGRICULTURE, NON-AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, SPECIAL PRODUCTS
AND SPECIAL SAFEGUARD MECHANISM
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Organised
by Federal Ministry of Commerce and industry of Nigeria
and in collaboration with Trade Policy Research and Training
Programme (TPRTP), Ibadan International Lawyers and Economists
against Poverty (ILEAP), Canada International Centre for
Trade and Sustainable development (ICTSD), Geneva
Gubabi Royal Hotel Abuja, Nigeria
9th
to 10th October 2007
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Description
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Description
The
Doha Development Round of negotiations which were launched in
2001 is advancing towards the critical stage of reaching consensus
on many of the issues in the agenda. In particular, proposals
have been submitted and debated by various negotiating groups
in the different areas such as agriculture and non-agricultural
products and services. In agriculture and non-Agricultural market
access (NAMA) negotiations in particular, issues which relate
to tariff and non-tariff barriers are in their various stages
of finalisation. Before the suspension of negotiations in June
2006, the negotiations in agriculture and NAMA moved towards agreement
on tariff reduction modalities, including the coefficients to
be applied by developing and developed countries in the adopted
simple Swiss formula while the ways to treat countries based on
their level of development have been agreed, such as special products
and special safeguard mechanisms, sensitive products, among others.
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