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EU Cuncil: First Council conclusions on the 10th World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference [
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Global Civil Society letter on the
Nairobi Ministerial of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
December
09, 2015
Dear
Members of the WTO,
As
members of 453 civil society organizations including trade unions,
environmentalists, farmers, development advocates, and public interest groups from
over 150 countries, we are writing today to express extreme alarm about the
current situation of the negotiations in the WTO. We urge you to take seriously
the need for the upcoming Nairobi Ministerial to change existing WTO rules to
make the global trading system more compatible with people-centereddevelopment,
and to forestall efforts by some developed countries to abandon the development
agenda and replace it with a set of so-called “new issues” that actually are non-trade
issues that would impact deeply on domestic economies and constrain national
policy space required for development and public interest.
Governments
from around the world recently endorsed the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) negotiated through the United Nations. These include key goals such as reducing
poverty and inequality; eradicating hunger;and ensuring universal access to
essential services such as health care, education, water, and energy. In order
to achieve these goals, countries must have the policy space to invest in
domestic agricultural production to achieve food security and food sovereignty;
to regulate the financial sector to ensure financial stability; to scale up
public provision of essential services to guarantee education, health, water,
and energy access; to harness the power of government procurement to promote
small and medium enterprises (SMEs); to utilize tax revenues, including
tariffs, strategically to foment sustainable development and the creation of
jobs with decent work; and to ensure that foreign investment serves the
interests of the national development plan. However, this policy space is
currently constrained by existing WTO rules which the vast majority of WTO
members, which are developing countries, have been demanding must be changed,
and are further threatened by an effort by a tiny number of developed countries
to replace the development mandates with “new issues” designed to further
increase transnational corporate profit margins.
As
civil society organizations, we have witnessed firsthand in our communities the
negative impacts of 20 years of some existing WTO policies which have largely
favored the interests of the developed world over the development interests of
the developing world. This has particularly led to rising inequalities both
within and among countries; the contributions of increased trade to climate
change; the financial deregulation that led to the 2008 global economic crisis
and the ongoing crises of food insecurity and joblessness, to name a few. Many
of our organizations have called repeatedly for the WTO to be replaced with an
institution that regulates corporate trade for the benefit of workers, farmers,
communities, and the environment, rather than disciplining states for the
narrow goal of increasing trade. At the same time, we must ensure that the
WTO’s model of restricting national policy space in favor of corporate trading
rights must not be expanded, but rather pruned back. That is why it is so
urgent at this time to ensure that the Nairobi Ministerial deliver on removing
WTO obstacles to development by fulfilling the development mandate in terms of
strengthening and making effective the Special and Differential Treatment (SDT)
for all developing countries, and affirming developing countries’ rights to
food security, while forestalling the corporate agenda of abandoning
development in favor of a corporate wish list of “new issues.”
Success in Nairobi: Fulfilling the
Development Mandate by Strengthening SDT for All Developing Countries, Removing
WTO Obstacles to Food Security, and Operationalizing Benefits for the Least
Developed Countries (LDCs)
