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The paper examines key elements of the NAMA negotiations, the history of protectionism in industrial products (including the use of tariffs by developed countries), the optimal use of industrial tariffs at different phases of a country

The Geneva People's Alliance has released information on the proposed program for the General Council of People's during the July WTO General Council Meeting from July 27th to 29th, 2005.

A dozen capital-based senior trade officials today will be asked by the European Union to provide some indication as to how far they can go in advancing all the pillars of the Doha Development Agenda work program

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Argentina, Brazil and India presentedtheir views on the need to maintain the use of industrial tariffs.They also further explained their proposal which had beentabled at the previous NAMA meeting.(M.Khor)

U.S. restaurants, food retailers and processors have joined with agriculture producer groups in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil to form a coalition to lobby for reduced farm tariffs and subsidies at the World Trade Organization headquarters here and in world capitals.

At the negotiations over non agricultural market access (NAMA), there wasa heated debate over the modalities on the tariff reduction formulaand other aspects such as the treatment of unbound tariffs.(M.Khor)

The Special Session on agriculture, mainly involving negotiations onmaket access issues (the tariff reduction formula and special products and special safeguard mechanism) took place on 30 May to 3 June at the WTO.(M.Khor)

At the WTO agriculture session on 30 May to 3 June, the Groupof 33 (comprising 42 countries, mainly developing countries, whichare concerned about food security, livelihood security and ruraldevelopment needs) submitted two papers on special products (SPs)and special safeguard mechanism (SSM), in which the G33 spellout in greater detail their proposals on these two concepts.(M.Khor)