Agri Association write to Bush, express concerns over Doha Round
02 Jun '06
3 min read
The treatment of "sensitive" products for developed countries and "special" products for developing countries must be limited in order to preserve the market access gains achieved through overall tariff reductions.
The value of any tariff cut proposals will be greatly eroded by extensive exceptions for sensitive and special products.
The need to achieve significant increases in market access in developing, including newly acceded, country markets is especially important because these countries, which account for 81 percent of the world's population, represent the markets of the future.
Again, we urge you and the U.S. negotiators to insist that any WTO agricultural agreement maintain a high level of ambition and achieve significant and commercially meaningful increases in market access in both developed and developing country markets.
While an agreement short of the U.S. market access proposal is not our objective, any such outcome must result in commitments on domestic support commensurate with this diminished market access result.
We look forward to continuing to work with you and your team to reach an agreement our organizations and the farmers and ranchers we represent will be able to support.
Written by National Cotton Council, American Farm Bureau Federation,American Soybean Association, American Sugar Alliance, National Association of Wheat Growers, National Barley Growers Association, National Corn Growers Association , National Milk Producers Federation, USA Dry Pea and Lentil Council, USA Rice Federation, US Canola Association, Wheat Export Trade Education Committee.
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