Committee on Trade and Environment - Special Session - Statement by China on Environmental Goods At the Committee on Trade and Environment Special Session (CTESS) Meeting of 22 June 2004 - Paragraph 31 (iii)

World Trade Organization TN/TE/W/42 6 July 2004 (04-2910) Committee on Trade and Environment Special Session Original: English Statement by China on Environmental Goods At the Committee on trade and environment special Session (CTESS) Meeting of 22 June 2004 Paragraph 31 (iii) The following communication, dated 6 July 2004, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of China. _______________ Introduction The new round of multilateral trade negotiations is called the Doha Development Agenda. Paragraph 2 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration reads that “the majority of WTO Members are developing countries. We seek to place their needs and interests at the heart of the Work Programme adopted in this Declaration. Recalling the Preamble to the Marrakech Agreement, we shall continue to make positive efforts designed to ensure that developing countries, and especially the least-developed among them, secure a share in the growth of world