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FTAA.soc/thm/a/01
July 18, 2003

Original: Spanish
Translation: FTAA Secretariat
 

FTAA - COMMITTEE OF GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES ON THE PARTICIPATION OF  CIVIL SOCIETY


FIRST THEMATIC MEETING WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY OF THE HEMISPHERE

Sao Paulo, June 25, 2003


AGENDA

9:00 Opening
  Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil
   
9:15 Opening comments
  Chair of the SOC
  “Panorama of the FTAA Negotiations”
  “Overview of the Agricultural Negotiations of the FTAA”
   
10:00 • Market access and tariff liberalization
  • Elimination of agricultural export subsidies
  • Application of disciplines to other practices that distort trade in agricultural products
   
15:00 Effects of hemispheric trade liberalization on small and medium-size farmers: preserving the family farm.
   
16:00 Agriculture and sustainable agricultural development
   
17:00 Effects of hemispheric trade liberalization on the agribusiness sector
   
19:00 Final comments

                       This document has been reclassified from FTAA.soc/inf/30/Rev.2, dated June 25, 2003
 
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