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February 21, 2003

Original: English-Spanish
Translation: non FTAA Secretariat


FTAA - NEGOTIATING GROUP ON AGRICULTURE

Twenty-Third Meeting

Panama, February 17-20, 2003

PRESS COMMUNIQUE


The Twenty-third Meeting of the Negotiating Group on Agriculture (NGAG) took place in Panama City, Panama from February 17-20, 2003. The following delegations attended: Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, 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 covered: (1) the exchange of tariff offers among all delegations during non-plenary sessions on February 16-17, 2003; (2) the methodology of notification and counter-notification on non tariff measures; (3) sanitary and phytosanitary measures; (4) export subsidies; and (5) other practices that distort trade in agricultural products, including those which have an equivalent effect to agricultural export subsidies.

The Tripartite Committee presented the following reports: (i) a matrix comparing similar texts from the Chapters of the NGAG and the NGMA; (ii) the status of, and inputs to, the Hemispheric Data Base (HDB); and (iii) the status of the Excel files containing trade and tariff information requested by the NGAG.

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

The Group’s next meeting will be held in Puebla, Mexico from March 17-21, 2003.


FTAA – NEGOTIATING GROUP ON AGRICULTURE

Twenty-Third Meeting

Panama, February 17-20, 2003


AGENDA

1. Approval of the Agenda
2. General Issues:

- Comparative matrix of texts from NGMA and NGAG
- Notification and counter-notification of SPS
- Hemispheric Data Base (HDB)
- Contributions forwarded by the Committee of Government Representatives on the Participation of Civil Society
- Status on tariff negotiations
3. Methodology of notification and counter-notification on non tariff measures
4. Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures
5. Export subsidies
6. Other practices that distort trade in agricultural products, including those which have an equivalent effect to agricultural export subsidies
7. Other Issues
- Letter from the Chair of the Consultative Group on Smaller Economies to the NGAG
- Draft Agenda for the next meeting
- Report from 23rd meeting of NGAG
- List of tasks
TENTATIVE DISTRIBUTION OF TIME

(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)

SUNDAY 16 AND MONDAY 17 (in the morning): Exchange of tariff offers

MONDAY 17:

3:00 PM – 6:00 PM

1. Approval of the Agenda
2. General Issues:

- Comparative matrix of texts from NGMA and NGAG
- Notification and counter-notification of SPS
- Hemispheric Data Base (HDB)
- Contributions forwarded by the Committee of Government Representatives on the Participation of Civil Society
- Status on tariff negotiations
3. Methodology of notification and counter-notification on non tariff measures

TUESDAY 18:


4. Export Subsidies

WEDNESDAY 19/THURSDAY 20:


5. Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures

FRIDAY 21:


6. Other practices that distort trade in agricultural products, including those which have an equivalent effect to agricultural export subsidies

7. Other Issues
- Letter from the Chair of the Consultative Group on Smaller Economies to the NGAG
- Draft Agenda for the next meeting
- Report from 23rd meeting of NGAG
- List of tasks
 
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