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Mr President, we all agree that it is in the interests of the European Union to have a strong, fair, rule-based international trading system under the auspices of the World Trade Organization. That will help create trade diversification in our manufacturing and service economy base and stimulate economic growth to the benefit of European businesses and consumers alike.
However, the Doha Round cannot simply be about what the EU is willing to concede on agriculture. Other World Trade Organization partners must also be willing to make a success of this round, not only in the area of agriculture, but also in the industrial services and trade facilitation areas of the negotiations. The non-agricultural industrial market access negotiations must deliver tariff reductions for all products.
Average EU tariffs are now less than 4%, while some industrial tariffs in Asia and South America are as high as 30%. The bottom line is that the Doha Round should ensure that average industrial tariffs outside the EU fall to less than 10%.
With regard to the reform of the EU agricultural system, Commissioner Mandelson has succeeded in the negotiating mandate given to him by the EU governments. He has already offered an average cut of 46%, which will apply to import tariffs, although there was a clear understanding that the 1999 and 2003 CAP reforms were in preparation for cuts of 36%.
However, I am not talking about large-scale agricultural exports, Commissioner Mandelson, but about small farmers in the west and north-west of Ireland, who will soon go the way of their sugar counterparts there whose trade has been wiped out. Is that fair? Is that a fair system? It is not and cannot be! The pretence that it is the developing countries who will benefit is totally erroneous. The real beneficiaries will be the big beef barons of South America and elsewhere."@en1
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