Non agricultural market access

Non agricultural market access

Special and differential treatment remains an integral component of all trade negotiations, including agriculture and non agricultural market access.

The modalities of non agricultural market access need to address specific concerns of developing countries relating to preference erosion.

Small and vulnerable economies should be provided greater market access in agriculture and non agricultural market access (NAMA) to enable them to participate meaningfully in the multilateral trading system to mitigate disadvantages caused by the geographical handicap and smallness of their market and economy.

Some progress has been made in various areas of the negotiations agriculture, non agricultural market access, services, rules and special and differential treatment.

The post July package WTO negotiations have focused on technical specifics and parameters in the frameworks on agriculture and non agricultural market access.

Market access

The main focus of the work of the negotiating group on non agricultural market access has been on the appropriate formula for tariff cuts.

Yet, negotiations under agriculture and non agricultural market access have proved controversial owing to differing interests between preference dependent countries and other competitive exporting countries.

The Framework Agreement sets out five core areas that include, in addition to agriculture, market access on non agricultural products, services, development issues and trade facilitation.

Recognizes the need to address market access for developing countries, including in agriculture, services and non agricultural products, in particular those of interest to developing countries

Item 4 Market access, market entry and competitiveness

24. Recognizes the need to address market access for developing countries, including in agriculture, services and non agricultural products, in particular those of interest to developing countries

18. Recognizes the need to address market access for developing countries, including in agriculture, services and non agricultural products, in particular those of interest to developing countries

18. Recognizes the need to address market access for developing countries, including in agriculture, services and non agricultural products, in particular those of interest to developing countries

21. Recognizes the need to address market access for developing countries, including in agriculture, services and non agricultural products, in particular those of interest to developing countries

18. Recognizes also the need to address market access for developing countries, including in agriculture, services and non agricultural products, in particular those of interest to developing countries

14. Recognizes the need to address market access for developing countries, including in respect of agriculture, services and non agricultural products, in particular those of interest to developing countries

The immediate objective of the negotiations has been to reach agreement by July 2005 on a first approximation of the full modalities on agriculture and non agricultural market access.

(c) Access to resources, including microcredit, new technologies and agricultural input

The crucial issue is market access.

We need to provide better market access, including access to financial services.

Negotiating Group on Market Access, WTO doc.

The July package provided that the particular concerns of developing countries, including commodities issues, would be taken into account in the context of the negotiations on agriculture and non agricultural market access.

agricultural land in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The current spatial arrangement of agricultural land is unsustainable for the organization of modern market production.

With regard to market access for agricultural and non agricultural products, the negotiations should give particular attention to products of special interest to the landlocked developing countries and to the need stated in the São Paolo Consensus to expedite the Doha work programme for small economies.

With regard to modalities for negotiations, so far the Negotiation Group on Market Access for Non Agricultural Products (NGMA) has not decided whether or not to include EGs under a possible sectorial tariff approach.

Another tool was the Market Access Map, a database on market access barriers, developed to enhance transparency and to support international marketing and trade promotion.

The agricultural sector is protected through high tariffs, tariff picks, tariff escalation and non tariff barriers in many developed countries, and market access is often denied to products from developing countries, including landlocked developing countries.

Cuba had taken measures to facilitate SME access to credit, particularly in the agricultural sector.

In the same vein, we would like to reiterate our call for the current negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on market access for agricultural and non agricultural goods to give particular attention to products of special interest to landlocked developing countries, as stipulated in the Almaty Programme of Action.

In the same vein, we would like to renew our call for the current World Trade Organization negotiations on market access for agricultural and non agricultural goods to give particular attention to products of special interest to, or originating from, landlocked developing countries, as stipulated in the Almaty Programme of Action.

Natural conditions of plain areas are favourable for sustained agricultural production and contemporary market commerce.

Limited progress has been made in the non agricultural labour market and in political life.

Other key market access areas are so called product exclusions (the fact that the distribution of certain products is sometimes excluded from commitments), for example as regards alcohol, tobacco, or pharmaceutical or certain agricultural (raw) products.

In addition, the system assists farmers to access market information.

Welcoming the framework modalities agreed at the General Council meeting of the World Trade Organization in Geneva on 1 August 2004 in key areas such as agriculture, market access for non agricultural products, trade facilitation, development and services,

The second module explained how the livestock market works, concepts in micro economy, and the mechanism of market based pricing and management of agricultural properties.

Today, Spain and Italy are at risk of losing market access.

African farmers need improved technologies and better access to agricultural markets in Europe and the United States.

They have become key players in the market, holding about 25 35 of all agricultural futures contracts.

Fiji thanked its partners for their economic support in the reform of its sugar industry it had initiated programmes to encourage the diversification of agricultural crops, support farmers through loan payment strategies and assist them in gaining market access.

This requires that technical work be advanced substantially, most notably the completion of the approximation of full modalities in agriculture and non agricultural market access by the end of July 2005, or shortly thereafter, and in advance of the ministerial conference.

Market access, road services and natural resource management must also be developed.