Committee on Trade and Development - Dedicated Session - Accession to the WTO - Communication from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Fiji, Grenada, Jamaica, Mauritius, Papua New Guinea, Solomon[...]St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Fiji, Grenada, Jamaica, Mauritius, Papua New Guinea, Solomon[...]St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- 2005/10/26
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World Trade
Organization WT/COMTD/SE/W/17
18 October 2005 (05-4773) Committee on Trade and Development
Dedicated Session Original: English
Accession to the WTO
Communication from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Fiji,
Grenada, Jamaica, Mauritius, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands,
St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
The following communication, dated 13 October 2005, is being circulated at the request of the above delegations.
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Introduction
The process of accession to the WTO of small vulnerable economies places unreasonable demands on applicant countries. There is no limit to the demands that may be made of the acceding small vulnerable economies and major WTO Members have used this freedom to impose demands going far beyond the commitments undertaken by WTO Members at similar stages of development or indeed beyond the commitments that they themselves have undertaken. Small vulnerable econom