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This report on the outcome of the Hong Kong WTO meeting comes at a crucial time, as the negotiations currently hang in the balance. We voted today to send a strong political signal to the negotiating parties, including the EU, to honour commitments to a successful conclusion of this round geared towards the poorest countries, as agreed at Doha.
As Labour's spokesperson on International Trade, I submitted a number of amendments to this report at its committee stage. Then, as now, I called for the exclusion of key public services (including water) from liberalisation drives. On the paragraph relating to NAMA, I called for flexibility in the number and range of coefficients used in formulating tariff cuts, so as to leave adequate policy space for developing countries to choose the rate at which they liberalise. I voted for a similar amendment today.
On agriculture, whilst I agree with the Commission's assessment that negotiations should be pursued in parallel with those of other sectors, I could not vote in favour of calls by some colleagues for the current EU offer to be made conditional and even retractable. I believe the current offer should at least be maintained."@en1
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