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members on a wide range of sectors and on several horizontal issues, as well as on
the movement of natural persons;
(h) Appropriate modalities for reduction or elimination commitments in
negotiations on market access for non-agricultural products, as provided for in
paragraph 16 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration, in particular on products of
export interest to developing countries, and taking into account the special needs
and interests of developing and least developed country participants, including
through less than full reciprocity in reduction commitments;
(i) The review of the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual
Property Rights, 12 taking fully into account its development dimension;
(j) In accordance with paragraph 16 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration, on
market access for non-agricultural products, reduction or elimination of high tariffs,
tariff peaks and tariff escalation, as well as non-tariff barriers, on those products, in
particular on products of export interest to developing countries;
(k) The clarification and improvement of disciplines in the areas of antidumping, subsidies and countervailing measures, taking into account the needs of
developing countries, including the least developed among them, while preserving
the basic concepts, principles and effectiveness of those agreements and their
instruments and objectives in non-agricultural market access;
(l) The examination, in the context of paragraphs 36 and 37 of the Doha
Ministerial Declaration, of the relationship between trade, debt and finance and
between trade and transfer of technology, and possible recommendations thereon,
taking into account their development dimension;
(m) Making the World Trade Organization operations more transparent,
including through more effective and prompt dissemination of information;
12. Recognizes the crucial role that the expeditious implementation of World
Trade Organization agreements and improved World Trade Organization rules,
reflective of the development dimension of the Doha Ministerial Declaration, can
play with regard to the development opportunities of developing countries and their
capacity to integrate into the global economy;
13. Takes note of the provisions of the Doha Ministerial Declaration with
respect to the relationship between trade and investment, the interaction between
trade and competition policy, transparency in government procurement and trade
facilitation;
14. Reaffirms that agriculture remains a fundamental and key sector for the
overwhelming majority of developing countries, and stresses the importance of a
successful conclusion of the Doha work programme in this regard;
15. Also reaffirms the commitment to the full and faithful implementation of
the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing,12 and calls for further progress in its
implementation, which is a necessary and inherent condition of full implementation
of the agreements arising from the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade
Negotiations;
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See Legal Instruments Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations,
done at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994 (GATT secretariat publication, Sales No. GATT/1994-7).
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