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FTAA.ngag/com/07
May 18, 2000

The Seventh Meeting of the FTAA Negotiating Group on Agriculture (NGAG), was held in Miami, Florida from May 16-18, 2000. Delegates from the following countries participated: Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela.

The NGAG was given reports on the meeting of the Trade Negotiations Committee in Guatemala, and that presented by the Chairman of the Negotiating Group on Market Access on their recently concluded meeting.

Afterwards, the NGAG focused its discussion on export subsidies, other measures and practices that distort trade in agricultural goods, and other measures of equivalent effect to export subsidies. The discussion progressed, and it will be continued in future meetings of the Group.

The Eighth Meeting of the NGAG will take place in Miami, from 25-28 July, 2000.

The Agenda of the meeting is attached.

AGENDA

1. Adoption of the Agenda.
2. Report on the meeting of the Negotiation Group on Market Access.
3. Report on the meeting of the Trade Negotiations Committee in Guatemala City.
4. Export subsidies, other measures and practices that distort hemispheric trade in agricultural goods, and other measures with a similar effect to export subsidies.

1. In dealing with this Agenda item, the delegations will have the documents distributed by the participants, as agreed upon at the last meeting in February and set forth in document FTAA.ngag/rep/06/.

2. Substantive proposals will be presented by the delegations and then discussed by the plenary of the meeting.

3. The Chair has suggested presenting and discussing these proposals in the order in which they were submitted to the Group Chair.

4. Discussions shall concentrate on the issue at hand; delegations may, however, raise additional issues that have already been discussed.

5. Task List
6. Agenda and date of the Group’s next meeting.
7. Any other business.