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DOHA and the EU
Intro
Trade of industrial goods
Trade in services
Trade in agricultural goods
Trade and the Environement
Introduction
 The Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization
negotiations aims to lower trade barriers around the world, permitting
free trade between countries.
 The Doha round : Doha, Qatar in 2001, in Cancún, Mexico (2003), and
Hong Kong, China (2005).
 The EU is one of the key players in the World Trade Organisation
(WTO).
Market access for industrial goods
 The EU wants to do away with high tariffs, tariff peaks and
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tariff escalation to increase trading opportunities, both for
north-south as for south-south trade.
The EU is encouraging developed countries to provide to
Least Developed Countries (LDCs) with:
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Duty Free and Quota Free (DFQF)
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‘Round for Free’
the EU has proposed to apply a non-linear Swiss formula,
achieving deeper cuts on higher tariffs
Trade in Services:
 Market access negotiations on services will benefit businesses as well
as consumers world-wide. EU wants to encourage service trade
 In its offers, the EU has put a strong focus on business services.
 The EU pursues a gradual liberalization of the global trade in services
both at multilateral level through the GATS negotiations in the WTO
and at bilateral/regional level.
Trade in agricultural goods
 Europe is the biggest importer of agricultural goods worldwide, it
imports from developing countries as much as the US, Japan, Canada,
Australia and New Zealand taken together
 The European Union is determined to reduce all forms of domestic
support provided to farmers in developed countries, eliminate export
subsidies by 2013 and lower tariff for agriculture products imports.
 This should put an end to alleged unfair competition to developing
countries' agriculture export.
Trade and the Environment
 Protecting the environment, social development, and consumer
concerns are key elements of the Doha.
 EU is working on:
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Improving market access for environmental goods and services
so that these would be more easily available and at lower prices; many
such goods and services are central to the successful implementation of
environmental policies, e.g. for energy efficiency and waste water
treatment.
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The EU wants the international community to make sure both
trade and environmental laws work together to support sustainable
development.
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