Committee on Agriculture - Special Session - Revised Draft Modalities for Agriculture
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World Trade
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TN/AG/W/4/Rev.4
6 December 2008
(08-6017) Committee on Agriculture
Special Session
REVISED DRAFT MODALITIES FOR AGRICULTURE
I think we have made progress since July, and the attached text, together with the separate papers, are an attempt to capture that.
Within the text itself there are a number of square brackets that have been deleted. It is clear that on a number of those, there cannot be said to be formal agreement. But, in earlier versions of the drafts where there were no square brackets, there was not always formal agreement either. Everything is conditional in the deepest sense in any case. But the changes made at this time now represent a best estimate of where there is additional good reason to believe there would prove to be consensus if everything was to come together as a modalities package.
Negotiations and discussions that took place during the July meetings have been a strong input in arriving at that estima