From Doha to Cancun to Geneva to Hong Kong

1. From Doha to Cancun to Geneva to Hong Kong From Motherhood statements to Framework to Modalities

2. Agriculture • Doha Ministerial Declaration • Derbez Text • July Package – Annex A • Export Subsidies • Domestic Support • Amber, Blue and Green • De Minimis • Market Access • Sensitive products • SP and SSM • Negotiations and Country Positions: • G20, G33, US, Cairns Group and EU, G10

3. NAMA • Doha Ministerial Declaration – Para 16 • Derbez Text • July Package – Annex A • The Vehicle • Non Linear Formula • Bindings • Sectoral Tariff Elimination • Negotiations and Country Positions: • North and South • Where is the South?

4. Services • WTO Document S/L/93 of 29 March 2001 – Guidelines and Procedures for the Negotiations on Trade in Services. • Commitments in sectors through request and offer • – para 11 • Para 12 “there should be appropriately flexibility for individual developing country Members for opening fewer sectors, liberalising fewer types of transactions, progressively extending, market access in line with their development situation and when making access to their markets available to foreign service suppliers, attaching such access conditions aimed at achieving the objectives referred to in Article IV (GATS) – increasing share of developing countries… • Rules making on subsidies, safeguards, government procurement, qualification and licensing requirements. • Guidelines recognised the need to establish disciplines on rules before completing specific sectoral commitments • Implementation of provisions of GATS relating to developing countries • Para 14 and 15 call for an assessment from time to time of the implementation of Article IV and XIX.2 (GATS) • Article IV requires that the increasing participation of the developing countries in world trade shall be facilitated through specific commitments by different members relating to the strengthening of the domestic services capacity of the developing countries, improvement of their access to distribution channels and information networks and liberalisation of market access in sectors and modes of supply export of interest to the developing countries • Article XiX.2 stipulates liberalisation by developing countries of fewer types of transactions and in fewer sectors, and also envisages developing countries’ attaching to their liberalisation conditions aimed at achieving the objectives referred to in Artivle IV • Para 14 – “negotiations shall be adjusted in the light of the results of the assessment

5. Services II • Guidelines adopted in Doha Ministerial Declaration • July Package – Annex C • May 2005 • Rules Making • Progress Report and Recommendations for HK • Negotiations and Country Positions: • Developing Countries proposals on Article IV and XIX.2 ignored • Pressure to increase number and content of offers • Slow progress on Safegaurds – to protect domestic suppliers

6. Trade Facilitation • Doha • Cancun – remaining Singapore Issue • July Package – Annex D • Articles V, VIII and X of GATT

7. Implementation Issues • Doha Declaration- para 12 • WT/MIN (01)/ 17 • July Package – Para d.

8. TRIPS

9. Role of Brasil • G20 • FIPs • New DG? • “New Geography of Trade” GSTP

10. Role of Civil Society • In Cancun • July Package – 1 August 2004 • From Now to Hong Kong