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To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will support the right of poor country governments to provide targeted support and protection for their local producers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will support the right of poor country governments to provide targeted support and protection for their local producers.
Asked by
Helen Southworth
(Labour)
Answered by
Patricia Hewitt
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
14 January 2003
For answer on
29 January 2003
Answered on
29 January 2003
Helen Southworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will support the right of poor country governments to
provide targeted support and protection for their local producers. [91607]
Ms Hewitt: Flexibilities for developing countries (with additional flexibilities for the least developed countries) to retain some
targeted support and protection for their local producers already exist within all WTO trade defence instruments agreed in the
Uruguay Round.
The Government recognise that trade reform can have significant adverse effects on particular sectors and groups, especially in the
short-term. This is why it is important that trade reform is accompanied by complementary policies to manage the process of change
and integration into the world trading system. This may include some measures to promote indigenous industrial development. But the
evidence of the benefits of specific tariff protection is mixed so the Government do not see it as a particularly useful tool to
foster economic growth and therefore poverty reduction. Greater protectionism by developing countries limits the opportunities for
poor countries to trade both with each other and with developed countries, excluding them further from the benefits of international
trade.
The Government also believe that existing WTO agreements should take better account of countries' specific development needs.
Therefore, within the current Doha Development Agenda negotiations we support the further development of Special and Differential
Treatment provisions to assist developing countries to integrate into the world trading system.
Subjects
Developing countries; Trade; Trade agreements; Protectionism
Date
29 January 2003
Reference
91607; 398 c931W;398 c925-6W
House
House of Commons