Committee on Agriculture - Annual export competition review - Submission on behalf of the Cairns Group to the 87th meeting of the Committee on Agriculture in June 2018

Annual Export Competition Review

Submission oN behalf of the Cairns Group to the 87th meeting
of the Committee on Agriculture in June 2018

1.       At the 10th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC10) Ministers adopted the Decision on Export Competition (WT/MIN(15)/45; WT/L/980 of 19 December 2015 henceforth the Nairobi Decision). The Cairns Group welcomed this historic Decision as an important milestone in the reform process. Importantly, the Decision represented a legally binding commitment to both eliminate export subsidies, and further discipline measures with equivalent effect.