New dates
On February 23, 2022, WTO members meeting as the General Council
agreed to reschedule the Ministerial Conference for the week of June 13
See also
Pre-ministerial draft shows little to harvest in WTO farm talks
By Peter Ungphakorn
POSTED DECEMBER 9, 2021 | UPDATED FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Note: the official draft text is available as a public document here. It was circulated on November 23, 2021 by Ambassador Gloria Abraham Peralta of Costa Rica, the present chair of the negotiations. See the WTO news story of November 25 on the release and discussion.
As with the version from July, the new docusment starts with an assessment by the chair, with an introduction, eight subject headings, and a conclusion. Then come annexes, the main one with a draft text covering all the eight headings — originally eight separate draft decisions — followed by a draft decision on exempting the World Food Programme from export restrictions.
In these pages, the text has been reorganised so the assessment and draft text for each subject are brought together under a single subject heading on a single page:
- Introduction and draft preamble (on this page)
- Domestic support and draft
- Market access and draft
- Export competition [where export subsidies might be hidden] and draft
- Export restrictions and draft (including decision on World Food Programme)
- Cotton and draft
- Special safeguard mechanism (SSM) and draft
- Public stockholding for food security purposes (PSH) [where purchases at government-set prices are trade-distorting domestic support] and draft
- Transparency and draft
- Conclusion (on this page)
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