**Table 2. Summary of key elements of the tariff cuts used in the analysis**

||**Developed**<br>**Developing**|**LDCs**|**SVEs**|**Para 6**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**NAMA**|||||
|Formula<br>Flexibility|Swiss 8<br>20 (i): Swiss 20 & 0 cuts on 6.5%/7.5% of<br>lines/imports; 20 (ii): Swiss 20 & 1⁄2 cuts on<br>14/16% of lines/ imports; 22 (i): Swiss 22 &<br>no cuts on 5/5% of lines/imports; 22 (ii)<br>Swiss 22 & 1⁄2 cuts on 10/10% of<br>lines/imports; 25 Swiss 25 with no<br>flexibilities<br>None|Raise<br>binding<br>coverage<br>. No cuts|Bind all<br>NAMA<br>tariffs at<br>30%<br>average<br>or less|Bind at<br>least 75%<br>of tariffs at<br>an average<br>≤ 30%|
|Unbound|MFN 2001 + 25 %||||
|**Agriculture**|**Developed**<br>**Developing**|||**RAMs**|
|Bands|0/20/50/75<br>0/30/80/130|no libn|no libn||
|Proportional cut|50/57/64/70<br>33.3/38/42.7/46.7|||Tiered<br>fl ih|
||Scaled proportionately if the average-cut (including sensitive,<br>tropical & tariff escalation products) <54% in industrial<br>countries; if > 36% in developing|||ormua wt<br>cuts 8% pts<br>smaller<br>|
|Sensitive|4% of lines<br>5.3% of lines||||
|products|If >30%in toptier,2% pts more||||
|Special products|14% lines; 40% no cut & 60% with<br>15% cut||||
|Tariff Escalation<br>Products|Cut from next higher tier applied. In top tier add 6 percentage<br>points to the cut||||
|Tropicalproducts|t ≤ 10, Cut to zero; 10 <t≤ 75, 70% cut; t>75, 78%||||
|Cotton|Cut to zero on imports from LDCs||||

Notes: Members self-select developing or developed country status. Members likely selecting developed-country status include the 27 members of the European Union, plus Australia, Canada, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and the United States of America. The Republic of Korea is a developing country for agriculture; a developed country for NAMA. **LDCs** are identified in the UN list of Least Developed Countries. Economies treated as Small and Vulnerable ( **SVE** ) for NAMA were: Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Cameroon, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Macau, Mauritius, Mongolia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Zimbabwe. For **SVE** treatment in Agriculture, add Congo, Côte d‘Ivoire, Nigeria. **Paragraph 6** economies (those with less than 35% of tariffs bound) were identified as Cameroon; Congo, Cuba, Ghana, Kenya, Macau, China; Mauritius; Nigeria; Sri Lanka; Suriname; Zimbabwe. Members treated as **RAM** s are: China, Croatia, Ecuador, Georgia (NAMA only) Jordan, Mongolia, Oman, Panama, and Chinese Taipei. Members treated as **VRAM** s (no cuts) in agriculture are. Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Saudi Arabia, Tonga, Ukraine, Vietnam. The Special Product percentages used are higher than in the December 2008 modalities <u>because of the ―serious objections‖ of some developing countries..</u> In agriculture, we could not explicitly represent the TRQ increases which are associated with sensitive product designation in the industrial countries. We anticipate that most users of TRQs will use the option to reduce the formula cut by two-thirds and expand quotas by 4 percent of domestic consumption. In light of the finding by de Gorter and Kliauga (2006, p155) that TRQ expansion would have about one-third the impact of tariff cuts, we treated sensitive products as reducing the formula tariff cut by one-third.

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