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Project Review Meeting on WTO Doha Round & South Asia Linking Civil Society with Trade Negotiations (SAFIT-II)
December 21-22, 2006, New Delhi

CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics & Environment (CUTS CITEE) with support from Oxfam Novib, The Netherlands organised the review meeting of the Phase II of the Project: WTO Doha Round & South Asia: Linking Civil Society with Trade Negotiations. The meeting was held at New Delhi, India, on December 21-22, 2006.

The objective of the meeting was to bring together the project associates (partners, experts and other stakeholders) to review the preparatory phase activities of the project. It provided an opportunity to the respective partners to present their draft research paper. It also helped in finalising the draft research papers and simultaneously ensure the coordination and coherence of future activities, taking account of the priorities of the project countries.

• Backgrounder
• Agenda
• List of Participants
• Report
• Presentations:

• Special Products and Special Safeguard Mechanism
  – Mehnaz Ajmal Paracha, Researcher, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Pakistan

• Services Negotiations after Hong Kong – The South Asian Perspective
  – Selim Raihan, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Demystifying Hong Kong Duty Free Quota Free Market Access Decision
  – Shiv Raj Bhatt, Economist, South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment (SAWTEE), Nepal

• LDCs’ Duty Free and Quota Free (DFQF) Access to Developed Countries’ Market – Implications for South Asian LDCs
  – Atiur Rahman, Chairman, Unnayan Shamannay (US), Bangladeh

• NTBs Under NAMA Negotiations – A South Asian Perspective
  – Pranav Kumar, Policy Analyst, CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics & Environment, India

• Preference Erosion and Aid for Trade (A4T) – A South Asian Perspective
  – Janaka Wijayasiri, Research Economist, Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Sri Lanka