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The two
papers were circulated at about the same time because members link the two
subjects. After further discussion in the negotiating groups for each
subject, members intend to move to a new phase where these and some other
areas of the Doha Round can be negotiated in comparison with each other with
the hope that agreement can be reached in the next few weeks.
Eventually members want to negotiate an acceptable balance between the
depths of cuts (the “level of ambition”) in agricultural and
non-agricultural tariffs and agricultural subsidies as well as the size of
cuts that they desire in each area.
So the drafts are still not the final word. Drawn from WTO member
governments’ positions over several months of the negotiations, these are
not “proposals” from the New Zealand and Canadian ambassadors in the
sense that “proposals” are normally understood. In other words, these are
not the chairs’ opinions of what would be “good” for world agricultural
and non-agricultural trade, but what might be accepted by all sides in the
negotiations.
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