IFPRI's Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division is hosting a small workshop on the Doha Round agriculture negotiations, organized primarily by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) and the Brazilian Institute for International Trade Negotiations (ICONE). The schedule is below and the workshop is open for attendance.

Monday morning, 9:30AM - 1:00PM : Domestic Support and Export Competition

Main issues at stake in domestic support: Box-shifting, overall vs. product-specific capping, best approach to market price support and the use of trade distorting direct payments, AMS impacts on exports (income effect), green box disciplines, etc.

Main issues at stake in export competition: Phasing out of export subsidies, parallelism, export subsidy component of export credit, trade monopolies, and food aid.

Monday afternoon, 2:30PM - 5:30PM: Market Access

Main issues at stake: Options for reducing tariffs - exercises involving different formulae (blended vs. bands, Swiss vs. modified Swiss, UR average vs. UR minimal cuts, etc), treatment for tariff dispersion, conversion of specific/mixed tariffs, tariff escalations, “water” in tariffs (UR tariffication, bound vs. applied tariffs), tariff capping, TRQ expansion and administration, special products, special safeguards (SSG and SSM), etc.

Tuesday morning, 9:30AM - 12 noon: Conclusions and Recommendations