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FTAA.ngag/com/21
September 20, 2002

Original: English-Spanish
Translation: non FTAA Secretariat

FTAA - NEGOTIATING GROUP ON AGRICULTURE

Twenty-First Meeting

Panama, September 16 - 20, 2002

PRESS COMMUNIQUE

The Twenty-first Meeting of the Negotiating Group on Agriculture (NGAG) took place in Panama City, Panama from September 16-20, 2002. The following delegations attended: Argentina, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, United States, and Venezuela.

The NGAG agreed on the agenda, which is attached to this press communiqué. All the items on the agenda were covered.

The work of the Group centered on: (1) following up to the Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) meeting in the Dominican Republic; (2) discussing the organization of the tariff negotiations; and (3) discussing recommendations on the process of identifying 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.

The Tripartite Committee made presentations on: (i) the Hemispheric Data Base (HDB), including an explanation on how to extract data and on how to use such information in other software; and (ii) presentation of tariff offers. It also reported to the Group on the status of, and inputs to, the Hemispheric Data Base (HDB), and distributed a complete version of the HDB user’s manual.

The Group informs that it received no additional contributions from the Committee of Government Representatives on the Participation of Civil Society.


FTAA – NEGOTIATING GROUP ON AGRICULTURE

Twenty-First Meeting

Panama, September 16 - 20, 2002


AGENDA

(Note: the distribution of time among the different agenda items is only notional and will be adjusted according to the progress made during the meeting)

MONDAY 16:
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
1) General Issues:

i. Follow up of List of Tasks
ii. Notifications and Counter-Notifications of Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures
iii. Identification of non-tariff measures
iv. Contributions forwarded by the Committee of Government Representatives on the Participation of Civil Society
2) Follow up to the TNC meeting in the Dominican Republic

TUESDAY 17:
3) Presentations by the Tripartite Committee on:
i. Hemispheric Data Base;
ii. Presentation of tariff offers
Continuation # 2: Follow up to the TNC meeting in the Dominican Republic

WEDNESDAY 18:
Continuation # 2: Follow up to the TNC meeting in the Dominican Republic

THURSDAY 19:

4) Methods for the Exchange of Offers

FRIDAY 20:
 
5) Recommendations on the process of identifying 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) Other Issues:
i. Summary report from the 21st meeting
 
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