Committee on Agriculture - Special Session - Revised Draft Modalities for Agriculture Sensitive Products: Designation

World Trade Organization TN/AG/W/5 6 December 2008 (08-6016) Committee on Agriculture Special Session REVISED DRAFT MODALITIES FOR AGRICULTURE SENSITIVE PRODUCTS: DESIGNATION This paper, like TN/AG/W/6 and 7, is much more like work-in-progress than is the Revised Draft of Modalities itself (TN/AG/W/4/Rev.4). In these papers, it is not my intention to put forward precise suggestions for modalities because such precise suggestions as I have made in the fourth revision (which is actually the fifth revision of modalities which I have done if you start with TN/AG/W/3) were the result of convergence to the point where I felt such progress could be captured. Rather than propose a single solution to the designation of Sensitive Products, this working document sets out the issue and indicates a way forward which could, hopefully, operate as a platform to get to closure. My reason for issuing this, and the other working documents, in this more formal format is