Tropical products under Doha: balancing liberalisation and the avoidance of preference erosion

A contribution to the current debate on tropical and diversification products

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by Christopher Stevens and Jane Kennan

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This paper analyses trade in products that one group of WTO members wish to see substantially liberalised under the Doha Development Round (DDR) and another group wishes to see regulated in a way that minimises preference erosion. It takes as its starting point the products lists prepared by eight Latin American (LA) states (for full liberalisation) and by the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group (to avoid preference erosion). Its objective is simple: to identify ways in which the overlap between these two lists (and hence the difference in position of the two groups with respect to tropical products) could be minimised without requiring either party to abandon significant interests.

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