. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  TN/MA/W/87 
19 June 2007 
 (07-2596) 
Negotiating Group on Market Access Original:   English 
  
 
NAMA 11 MINISTERIAL COMMUNIQUÉ 
 
11 JUNE 2007, GENEVA 
 
Communication from the NAMA-11 Group of Developing Countries
 
 
  The following communication, dated 18 June 2007,  is being circulated at the request of the 
delegations of Argentina, Bolivaria n Republic of Venezuela, Brazil, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Namibia, 
Philippines, South Africa and Tunisia. 
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 1. We, the Ministers of the NAMA 11 group of developing countries
1, meeting in Geneva, on 
11 June 2007, reaffirm our commitment to the succesful conclusion of the Doha Round. We 
emphasise the need for the negotiations to be based on the objective of achievi ng a fair, balanced and 
development oriented result in accordance with the mandate.  
 2. We support the efforts of the Director Genera l and the Chairs of the negotiating groups to 
intensify the multilateral negotiating process and are keen to work with the WTO Members to build 
convergence in the NAMA negotiatio ns. The NAMA 11 is fully commite d to work with the Members 
in the search for pragmatic and creative solutions  that may be called for to achieve a successful 
conclusion of modalities in the NAMA negotiations, in  concert with the negotiations in Agriculture. 
In this regard, we call attention to the submissi on of  the NAMA 11 on various elements of the 
modalities and urge the chair to take into account  the principles and proposals contained therein
2. 
 3. We reaffirm our determin ation to achieve a fair and balanced result in the NAMA 
negotiations. A successful outcome will only be obtainable if the outcomes within NAMA and 
between NAMA and agriculture are balanced, as es tablished in the Doha mandate and paragraph 24 
of the Hong Kong Declaration. An outcome that  seeks to lower the contribution of developed 
countries in Agriculture, with no effective cuts in  domestic support and resulting in no new trade 
flows, and also insists on developing countries maki ng disproportionate and im balanced contributions 
in NAMA, will be unfair and inconsistent with the mandate. 
  4. We recall that the mandate emphasises the need for developed  countries to provide enhanced 
market access to developing countries, and we therefore state th at it is inappropriate for developed 
countries to place extreme demands on developing countries.  
 
5. Developing countries cannot be expected to pay for the Round by accepting a Swiss 
coefficient of 15, whilst developed countries make minimal reductions to their own industrial tariffs. 
This is totally imbalanced and di sproportionate and bears no correlati on with the offers of developed 
                                                     
 
1 Argentina, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Braz il, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Namibia, Philippines, 
South Africa and Tunisia. 
2 Job(06)/194 and Job(06)/194/Add 1 TN/MA/W/87 
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  countries in agriculture.  We stress that a difference of at least 25 points between the coefficients of 
developing and deve loped countries takes into account the prin ciple of “less than full reciprocity in 
reduction commitments”, that requires developed countri es to do more than developing countries that 
is to make a deeper cut in their tariffs and a greater effort.   
6. We recall that the NAMA 11 has called for the nu mbers in the brackets of paragraph 8 to be 
increased for developing countries so as to  accommodate their development needs. 
 7. We recognise that increasing binding coverage is  an important objective; the fact that most 
developing countries will significantly increase their binding coverage will be an important result for 
this Round. The mark-up for unbound tariff lines must be considered in the context of the inherent 
sensitivity of these products and should be at least 30 points.   8. A successful outcome of the negotiations  is only possible if the Round delivers on its 
development objectives. This means correcting past im balances in the multilateral trading system and, 
for the first time, tipping the balance in favour of developing countries.  
 
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