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Trade and development at the WTO: Learning the lessons of Cancun to revive a genuine development round
What lessons can be learnt from the collapse of the Cancun Ministerial?
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Following the collapse of the WTO’s 5th Ministerial meeting in September 2003, this House of Commons report concludes that a number of important lessons must be learnt if a development round is to be achieved. The paper finds that the collapse occurred as a result of:
- process matters, including time, timing and organisation
- geo-political matters, including new country-groups and the failure of brinkmanship
- and most importantly substance matters, in particular the Singapore Issues, agriculture and cotton subsidies
In order to produce a genuinely ‘development round’, the paper recommends that:
- preparation for Ministerials should be improved, including meeting deadlines, making rather than postponing decisions, and ensuring that Ministerials are not overloaded
- time must be well managed, with clear mechanisms for making decisions about the organisation and sequencing of negotiations, and for deciding whether to extend Ministerials
- the EU and the USA must not expect to set the agenda. All participants in negotiations need to be flexible, and country-groups should, as far as possible, work out their positions prior to Ministerials
- all four Singapore Issues—with the possible exception of Trade Facilitation - must be removed from the agenda, and there must be a commitment to meet the concerns of cotton producers
- the EU needs to reform its Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) more radically and more quickly
- the mandate, accountability and transparency of the EU should be clarified and improved. The UK government can contribute to this by clarifying the legal status of the Article 133 Committee and its role in determining EU trade policy
- the governance of the WTO should be improved by developing new rules around decision-making procedures in order to ensure that multilateral negotiations are democratic, accountable and transparent
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| UK aid and the Millenium Goals |
| By UK. House of Commons. International Development Committee, 2002 |
| Produced by: International Development Committee (IDC), UK |
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| Countries: United Kingdom, USA |
| Themes: Development Finance & Aid Effectiveness, Domestic Resource Mobilization, Globalization and Trade, Governance, International Affairs, Law and Rights, Macroeconomics and Economic Growth, Poverty & Inequality, Private Sector Development, Urban Development and the Global South |
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