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MARKET ACCESS: NEGOTIATIONS
2008 revised draft negotiating text

The chair of the Non Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) negotiating group, ambassador Don Stephenson, released on 19 May 2008 the revised draft negotiating text to focus further discussions towards modalities in this area of the DDA.

The new text is the product of his bilateral and plurilateral consultations of the last few weeks and builds upon the past years of negotiation, his July 2006 text “Towards NAMA modalities”, and the Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration. This revised text is another step in the process and might be subjected to further revision. Delegations will meet shortly to give their initial consideration to the text to improve it where necessary.

> Original mandate: GATT Article XXVIII bis
> The Doha mandate
> The Doha mandate explained

See also:
> Negotiations gateway
> 2004 agreed framework
> 2005 Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration
> More on the modalities phase
> Agriculture draft modalities

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19 May 2008
Download, 65 pages: Word 700KB; pdf 393KB

Earlier texts

8 February 2008.
> Download, 61 pages: Word 684KB; pdf 282KB
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Explanation: The February 2008 NAMA modalities text made simple

> July 2007 revised draft modalities,
19 pages: Word 206KB; pdf 82KB     
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June 2006 “Towards NAMA modalities”

December 2005 Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration