book chapter
MC11: A new opportunity to reduce distortions in the global agricultural trade system
2017 | Pages: 15
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Open Access | CC BY-SA-3.0-IGO-;
Citation
Laborde Debucquet, David; Piñeiro, Valeria; and Glauber, Joseph W. 2017. MC11: A new opportunity to reduce distortions in the global agricultural trade system. In Agricultural trade interests and challenges at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires: A Southern Cone perspective. Piñeiro, Valeria and Piñeiro, Martín (Eds.). Chapter 2. Pp. 27-42. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) et al.: San Jose, Costa Rica. http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/131543
The Eleventh Ministerial Conference (MC11) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will take place from 10 to 13 December 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Ministerial Conference which is attended by trade ministers and other senior officials from the organization’s 164 members, is the highest decision-making body of the WTO. The last Ministerial Conference was held in Nairobi, Kenya in December 2015. This will be the first Ministerial Conference to be held in South America and will provide an opportunity to reduce trade barriers and further liberalize the global trading system.