Committee on Agriculture - Special Session - Supporting Data to Calculate Product-Specific Blue box Limits - Note by the Secretariat

World Trade Organization TN/AG/S/25 9 November 2010 (10-5990) Committee on Agriculture Special Session SUPPORTING DATA TO CALCULATE PRODUCT-SPECIFIC BLUE BOX LIMITS Note by the Secretariat At the 12 February 2010 meeting of the Committee on Agriculture Special Session, it was agreed to request Members to submit supporting data necessary to calculate their product-specific Blue Box limits, in order to assist the ongoing agriculture negotiations. At the 4 March 2010 meeting it was agreed that initially only developed country Members were expected to provide their data. The Secretariat was requested at the meeting of the Committee on Agriculture Special Session on 27 September 2010 to issue a document with available relevant data. Accordingly, the tables of the present paper are based on the data submitted by developed country Members in response to the Secretariat requests of 14 December 2009 and 12 February 2010. The paper presents supporting data fo