ALCA - FTAA - ZLEA Negotiating Group on Agriculture - XVI Meeting

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February 22, 2002

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FTAA - NEGOTIATING GROUP ON AGRICULTURE

Sixteenth Meeting

Panama, February 18-22, 2002

PRESS COMMUNIQUE

The Sixteenth Meeting of the Negotiating Group on Agriculture (NGAG) took place from 18-22 February 2002 in Panama. The following delegations attended: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

The NGAG agreed on the Agenda and covered all the items on it.

The next meeting of the FTAA Negotiating Group on Agriculture will be held in Panama from 18-22 March 2002.

The Agenda of the meeting is attached.

FTAA - NEGOTIATING GROUP ON AGRICULTURE

Sixteenth Meeting

Panama, February 18-22, 2002

AGENDA

Approval of the agenda
General Issues
Recommendations on the treatment to be adopted to prevent sanitary and phytosanitary measures from becoming unjustified barriers to trade within the hemisphere (Instruction 6)
Recommendations on 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).
Recommendations on methods and modalities for tariff negotiations (instruction 1)
Recommendations on the scope and methodology for the elimination of export subsidies (Instruction 2)
Recommendations on the types of measures and the methodology for the development of disciplines to be adopted to prevent other practices that distort trade of agricultural products, including those which have an equivalent effect to agricultural export subsidies (Instruction 3)
Other business


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