期刊名称：The Journal of International Trade and Diplomacy
印刷版ISSN：1306-1542
出版年度：2009
卷号：3
期号：1
出版社：Ankara
摘要：On September 25, 2008, there was an attempt to try once again to start
up the Doha Round negotiations on agriculture. The Indian Ambassador
to the World Trade Organization (WTO) made a statement about the
resumption of the discussions. Ujal Singh Bhatia said the farm talks were
about more than just cutting tariffs and subsidies and integrating
agriculture into world trade rules. "Agriculture is not like other sectors...
There are billions of people who are poor and are farmers. And there are
issues of food security which involve the whole world's population. You
cannot treat agriculture therefore only from the perspective of market
access”. The statement related to a clash between the United States of
America (USA) and India over a proposal in the farm talks − to create a
"special safeguard mechanism" to enable farmers in poor countries to
cope with a flood of imports. The USA and developing country food
exporters feared such a safeguard could be used to shut off new export
opportunities and even roll back existing ones. India and other big
developing countries countered, saying their farmers need a safeguard
that will permit a quick response to an import surge that threatens their livelihoods, if necessary by raising tariffs temporarily above current "pre-
Doha" levels. The Minister concluded: "We are not talking about tinkering
with one or two numbers here and there. We're talking about a whole
philosophical approach to this issue and unless we find a solution which
embraces all these concerns... I think we will not find a solution”.
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