Paraguay advocates for greater market access at the World Trade Organization Conference - .::Agencia IP::.

During the 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Paraguay led the launch of a ministerial declaration with 60 other developing members, calling on all members of the organization to refrain from imposing unilateral environmental measures with trade impacts that create unnecessary obstacles to trade or arbitrary or unjustified discrimination among countries.

Asunción, Agencia IP.- During the 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Paraguay led the launch of a ministerial declaration with 60 other developing members, calling on all members of the organization to refrain from imposing unilateral environmental measures with trade impacts that create unnecessary obstacles to trade or arbitrary or unjustified discrimination among countries.

It also advocated for achieving greater market access and reducing internal subsidies that distort agricultural trade, both within the Cairns Group (composed of net food-exporting countries) and in the Latin American group of the Declaration on Agricultural Reform.

Both groups issued statements reiterating the need for agricultural reform in its three pillars: market access, internal subsidies, and export competition, with a holistic and balanced approach, by Article 20 of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture.

The WTO Ministerial Conference took place from February 26 to March 1 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to negotiate multilateral rules of international trade, mainly on agriculture, fisheries subsidies, dispute settlement system reform, development, and e-commerce.