WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/MIN(03)/W/7
5 September 2003
(03-4649)
MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE
Fifth Session
Cancún, 10 - 14 September 2003Original:  Spanish
AGRICULTURE – PARAGRAPH 4 AND ANNEX A TO THE
DRAFT MINISTERIAL TEXT
Communication from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador,
Peru and Venezuela
The following communication, dated 3 September 2003, has been received by the Chairman
of the General Council from the Permanent Missions of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru andVenezuela.
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We are writing to you in connection with paragraph 4 and Annex A of the Draft Cancún
Ministerial Text, which concern the agriculture negotiations and the framework for establishing
modalities with respect to agriculture, since they refer to the adoption of the framework concerning
the further commitments and related disciplines on key outstanding issues on market access.
Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela hereby note, for the official record of the
Conference, that among the outstanding issues of the Uruguay Round is paragraph 5
1 of the preamble
of the Agreement on Agriculture, an issue on which full agreement must be reached during these
negotiations.  We therefore propose that Annex A of the Draft Cancún Ministerial Text be amended to
include a new paragraph, which would follow paragraph 2.4 and would read as follows:
"2.5 All developed countries shall provide duty free access to all tropical products and others
mentioned in the preamble of the Agreement on Agriculture as well as to other agricultural
products representing at least [ ] per cent of imports from developing countries." 2
In the light of the above, we request that this communication be distributed as a formal
document of the Fifth Ministerial Conference.
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1 "Having agreed  that in implementing their commitments on market access, developed country
Members would take fully into account the particular needs and conditions of developing country Members byproviding for a greater improvement of opportunities and terms of access for agricultural products of particular
interest to these Members, including the fullest liberali zation of trade in tropical agricultural products as agreed
at the Mid-Term Review, and for products of particular importance to the diversification of production from thegrowing of illicit narcotic crops".
2 Taken from document JOB(03)/162, and based on document JOB(02)/113, a proposal submitted by
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.