Analytical Note, May 2016

Assessing the WTO’s Nairobi Package (MC10)

This paper provides an overview of the Decisions that came out of the 10^th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC) in Nairobi taking into account the interests and concerns of developing countries.

The Nairobi package includes Decisions on:

• Special Safeguard Mechanism for Developing Country Members (SSM)
• Public Stockholding for Food Security Purposes (PSH)
• Export Competition
• Cotton
• Preferential Rules of Origin for Least Developed Countries
• Implementation of Preferential Treatment in Favour of Services and Service Suppliers of Least Developed Countries and Increasing LDC Participation in Services Trade.

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