WTO members resume fisheries subsidies negotiations after August pause
World Trade Organisation
September 11 & 12, 2017
At
the 11-12 September informal meeting of the Negotiating Group on Rules
(NGR), WTO members started to comb through a compilation matrix of seven
proposals to limit harmful fisheries subsidies. Line-by-line topical
discussions based on the matrix are aimed at paving the way for a
well-supported, draft decision text for submission to the WTO’s 11th
Ministerial Conference (MC11) in December.
NGR
chair Ambassador Wayne McCook (Jamaica) emphasized during the meeting
that the time remaining before the Ministerial Conference is short and
that every hour must count in working from the multiple proposals on the
table to an eventual single draft text. He also emphasized the
member-driven nature of the process, encouraging the proponents to
continue discussions among themselves and with other members in an
effort to identify areas of convergence and to understand and try to
bridge differences.
The matrix, which presents a
side by side comparison of the proposals and was prepared at the
collective request of the proponents, was circulated just before the
WTO’s August break. Over the break, the chair had requested members,
when reviewing the matrix, to consider how to build on similarities
among the seven proposals and reflect on ways to address areas where
there may be important gaps. He also had asked members to seek guidance
from their capitals on national policy priorities in order to better
specify their negotiating positions.
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