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WTO AGREEMENT ON AGRICULTURE

,tiations the review of the Agreement is mandated one year before the end of th,le set for the first phase of negotiations all WTO member nations are expected

consultations with a view to generating greater awareness of the issues and to.s website a series of background papers on important WTO related issues


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INTRODUCTION

, .3 and were formally ratified in April 1994 at Marrakesh Morrocco The WTO Agreem,the Agreement the developed countries would complete their reduction commitment

iculture except that it excludes fishery and forestry products as well as rubber


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SAILENT FEATURES

, .domestic support and export subsidies

, , ,ers such as quotas variable levies minimum import prices discretionary licensi%with minimum rate of reduction of 15 for each tariff item over a 6 year period

.ffication-a particular level or particularly low import prices as compared to 1986 88 lev

% .tablished for the year 1995 rising to 5 at end of the implementation period


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% %equired to reduce their export subsidy expenditure by 36 and volume by 21 i,export subsidy reduction commitments no such subsidies can be granted in the


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INDIAS COMMITMENTS

), .re it did not have to undertake any commitments in regard to market access Th. ,illets etc which had been bound at zero or at low bound rates negotiations und


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,market price support programmers' for 22 products out of which 19 are included in our li.during the base period The negative figure arises from the fact that during the base pe

.igure by the quantity of production

. - . .y During the reference period the total non product specific AMS was Rs 4581 cores Taki, .As such we have not undertaken any commitment in our schedule filed under GATT The calc

.poor farmers provided under Article 6 of the Agreement on Agriculture This still keeps


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( )e in the form of a exemption of export profit from income tax under section 8. , ,egetables and floricultural products We have in fact indicated in our schedule


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MANDATED NEGOTIATIONS

.lture will be initiated one year before the end of the implementation period As the impl

:he broad parameters for carrying out negotiations

d market oriented agricultural trading system are the other objectives of the negotiation

.dly adhere to the mandate of Article 20 of the Agreement Members have also agreed to sub


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LIKELY ISSUES FOR NEGOTIATIONSAND POSSIBLE INDIAN STAND


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.access opportunities We would have to very carefully articulate it as India will need t

.uction to processed value added agricultural products for export purposes

. , ,particularly from developing countries In this context thus guidelines on TRQ allocati

.ountries would also figure prominently in the forthcoming negotiations

.d India would press for its availability to all developing countries


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developing world have experienced difficulty in calculating and notifying their aggregaltural sector even upto the de minimis .level

he flexibility provided to developing countries during the Uruguay Round to address their

, - . ,ovisions for support many of which are not non trade distorting Moreover as it is curre

,currently exempt from AMS reduction commitments should either be totally dispensed with.cussed


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.se of their potential of displacing developing country exports There would be,idies and Countervailing Measures agreement India should also have right to giv

,e a negative effect on prices and competition in the world agricultural market

ing to 'rolling over of export subsidies. This practice would need to be suitab


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.ent on Agriculture would be taken into account during negotiations.economists and scientists like Dr Swaminathan also believe that food security is econom

.ctives As opposed to this certain developed countries are advocating m u l t i f u n c t i o n a l c.countries concerns about the maintenance of rural landscape appear to be hollow Any atte

-at the non trade concerns of developed countries and those of developing countries differ. ,ployment and the elimination of poverty in rural areas Moreover these issues are neitheich India would like to see addressed


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Strengthening of the Special & DifferentialTreatment

.mportance to developing countries These special provisions were designed to tak.lementation of the agreement would be a high priority item in the next round

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