Taking Stock of the Doha Round Agricultural Negotiations

International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council

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Taking Stock of the Doha Round Agricultural Negotiations: Where are we and what does it really mean for the U.S.?

May 1, 2008, 3:00 pm

Rayburn House Office Building B-318

Hosted by the International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD).

Following the release of revised agricultural modalities in February, agricultural negotiations in Geneva have entered perhaps their most productive stage. The seminar on Capitol Hill featured a discussion on the state of play in the negotiations and for an examination of what the scenarios laid out in the modalities mean in particular for U.S. exporters and producers. Presenters also addressed how the likely U.S. gains and concessions match up to those of other WTO members.

Read the U.S. analysis:

Implications of the February 2008 WTO Draft Agricultural Modalities for the United States

Press Release

Speaker Bios

Panel I: Why We Should Still Pay Attention to the Doha Negotiations

Moderator: Cal Dooley, President & CEO, Grocery Manufacturers Association, former

Member of the US House of Representatives, IPC Member

The Honorable Representative Ron Kind
Constance Jackson, USDA FAS Associate Administrator
Joachim von Braun, Director General, IFPRI, IPC Member “The New Price Environment and Implications for the Doha Negotiations”
Carl Hausmann, President and CEO, Bunge North America, IPC Member

“Private Sector Perspective”

H.E. Guillermo Valles, Ambassador of Uruguay to the WTO

“An Update from Geneva”

Panel II: What’s at Stake for the US in the Doha Negotiations?

Moderator: J.B. Penn, Chief Economist, John Deere, former USDA Undersecretary,

IPC Member

Mike Gifford, Former Chief Agricultural Trade Negotiator, Canada, IPC Member

“An Overview of the Modalities”

David Blandford, Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics, Pennsylvania State University “Implications for U.S. Domestic Support (and Export Credits and Food Aid)”
David Laborde, Postdoctoral Fellow, IFPRI “Implications for U.S. Market Access”

Panel III: Brazil; Europe; Trade and Development

Moderator: David Orden, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

André Nassar, President, ICONE

“Brazil’s Perspective on the Negotiations"

Tim Josling, Professor. Emeritus, Food Research Institute, Stanford University, IPC

Member

“How do the Modalities Impact Europe?”

H.E. Arsene Balihuta, Ambassador of Uganda to the WTO

“The Doha Negotiations and Development”

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