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FTAA.ngag/com/17
March 27, 2002
Original: English-Spanish
Translation: non FTAA Secretariat
FTAA - NEGOTIATING GROUP ON AGRICULTURE
Seventeenth Meeting
Panama, March 18-22, 2002
PRESS COMMUNIQUE
The Seventeenth Meeting of the Negotiating Group on Agriculture (NGAG)
took place from 18-22 February 2002 in Panama. The following delegations
attended: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana,
Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago,
United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
The NGAG agreed on the Agenda and covered all the items on it.
The Agenda of the meeting is attached.
FTAA – NEGOTIATING GROUP ON AGRICULTURE
Seventeenth Meeting
Panama, March 18-22, 2002
AGENDA
1.) Approval of the Agenda
2.) General Issues
i Follow up of List of Task
ii Notifications and counter-notifications of Sanitary and Phytosanitary
measures
iii Identification of non-tariff measures
iv Potential joint meeting NGAG-NGMA
3.) Recommendations on methods and modalities for tariff negotiations
(instruction 1)
4.) Recommendations on the treatment to be adopted to prevent sanitary and
phytosanitary measures from becoming unjustified barriers to trade within
the hemisphere (Instruction 6)
5.) Recommendations on a preliminary inventory of non-tariff measures, in
order to establish a methodology, including a schedule, where appropriate,
for the elimination, reduction, definition, further definition, further
disciplining and/or prevention of non-tariff measures (Instruction 4).
6.) Recommendations on the scope and methodology for the elimination of
export
subsidies (Instruction 2)
7.) Recommendations on the types of measures and the methodology for the
development of disciplines to be adopted to prevent other practices that
distort trade of agricultural products, including those which have an
equivalent effect to agricultural export subsidies (Instruction 3)
8.) NGAG Report to the TNC
9.) Other business
i Summary Report from the Sixteenth meeting
ii Other items
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