TWN Info Service on Trade and WTO Issues (July08/46)
28 July 2008
Third World Network

Dear friends,

Given the current discussion at the WTO mini ministerial conference of the special safeguard mechanism in agriculture, we hope you find the following analyses by Third World Network and the South Centre useful.

The Third World Network analysis is of the 19 May 2008 chair’s agriculture text and can be downloaded from http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/briefing_papers/No48.pdf.  It provides background information and can be updated with the figures from Lamy’s text of 25 July, 2008 (see previous e-mail).

The South Centre paper analyses Lamy’s text of 25 July, 2008.  This paper (and other South Centre analyses of the WTO mini ministerial) are available here.

With best wishes
Martin Khor
TWN