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Compliance with G8 Commitments:
From Köln 1999 to Okinawa 2000

Compliance Studies by Issue Area:
International Trade

  1. INTEND TO STEP UP WORK with developing countries and multilateral institutions to improve developing country capacity to exercise their rights and meet obligations in global trading system so as to ensure derivation of full benefit of liberalized trade and then contribute to global economic growth.
    SCORE OF 6.5/10
     
  2. UNDERSCORE COMMITMENT to sustainable development... agree that environmental standards should be taken fully into account in upcoming round of WTO negotiations, include clarification of relationship between both multilateral environment agreements and key environmental principles, and WTO rules.
    SCORE OF 5.5/10
     
  3. RENEWED COMMITMENT to strongly support the WTO and commitment to open trade and investment environment. - call on all nations to resist protectionist pressures and encourage non-WTO members to join.
    SCORE OF 3/10
     
  4. PLEDGE TO work for successful WTO ministerial meeting, seek more effective way in WTO for addressing trade and environment relationship, promote sustainable development and social and economic welfare world wide.
    SCORE OF 6.5/10
     
  5. ENCOURAGE all members to make proposals in areas where developing countries can gain.
    SCORE OF 7/10
     
  6. REAFFIRM BIRMINGHAM COMMITMENT to least developed countries on improved market access.
    SCORE OF 2/10
     
  7. URGE greater cooperation and policy coherence among international, fincancial, economic, labour and environmental organizations.
    SCORE OF 4.5/10
     
  8. MUST BE DEALT WITH consequences of development of biotech. in all fora.
    SCORE OF 7/10
     
  9. COMMITMENT TO science-based, rule-based approach to these issues.
    SCORE OF 2/10
     

    From 33rd quadrilateral trade minister's meeting -- some specific ones

  10. WE AGREED THAT the forthcoming negotiations should cover all service sectors, including those of interest to developing countries.
    SCORE OF 4.5/10
     
  11. THE QUAD REAFFIRMED THE COMMITMENTS on agriculture that they undertook at the conclusion of the Uruguay round.
    SCORE OF 2/10
     
  12. WE AGREED that the next round of negotiations should include negotiations regarding non-agricultural tariffs and non-tariff barriers including those of interest to developing countries.
    SCORE OF 7.5/10
     
  13. WE AGREED that work on investment should proceed on a progressive basis, including the development of objectives toward negotiations of WTO rules on investment, as appropriate, as part of a forward workplan.
    SCORE OF 6.5/10
     
  14. WE REAFFIRMED OUT COMMITMENTS in the may 1998 ministerial declaration that established a comprehensive work program to examine trade-related issues relating to global electronic commerce and that continued the current practice of not imposing custom duties on electronic transmissions.
    SCORE OF 2/10
     

Using The First Commitment On The List:

CANADA: SCORE OF 0

Canada and the EU) has been criticized by Lesser Developed Countries for their apparently minor trade concessions and efforts to change the trading situation.

FRANCE: SCORE OF 0

GERMANY: SCORE OF -1

ITALY: SCORE OF -1

UK: SCORE OF -1

EUROPEAN UNION IN GENERAL: 0

JAPAN: SCORE OF +1

UNITED STATES: SCORE OF 0

RUSSIA: N/A


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