Multilateral Trade Negotiations

A/RES/3040(XXVII)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1973.

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5 versions · 1973–1980

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Concessions Landlocked Developing Countries Least Developed Countries Market Access Multilateral Trade Negotiations Principles South-South Trade Trade in Commodities Trade Liberalization Trade Negotiations Trade Restrictions

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23 operative paragraphs

I nvitcs all Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to give priority attention to the economic and development needs of developing countries during the preparatory work as well as in all stages of the multilateral trade negoti:ltions:

Also invites the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to re-examine, with a view to their adoption, the objectives of the developing countries in the multilateral trade negotiations that were not included in the summing-up by the Chairman at the twenty-eighth session of the General Agreement, particularly those relating to the economic development of the developing countries, such as an increased share for the developing countries in world trade, an improvement in the conditions of access for their exports to the markets of the industrialized countries and new rules for the international trade of those countries;

Declares that the multilateral trade negotiations should contribute effectively to a more equitable international division of labour;

Recommends that the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade should take full account of the following principles. to serve as guidelines for the multilateral trade negotiations:

The developing countries, collectively or individually, shall not suffer, directly or indirectly, adverse or prejudicial effects as a result of these negotiations: on the contrary, the negotiations 5hall provide the developing countries with additional benefits that repre-

10~ See Official Records of the General Assembly, Twentyseventh Session, Supplement No. I 5 (A/8715/Rev. J), part one, annex I.

sent a substantial and meaningful improvement of their position in international trade so that they may secure an increasing share in the growth in international trade commensurate with the needs of their economic development on the basis of non-reciprocity, non-discrimination and preferential treatment;

If the preferential advantages enjoyed by developing countries are adversely affected by the results of these negotiations, the developed countries shall take additional measures to compensate the developing countries so affected;

Developed countries shall provide more favourable and acceptable conditions of access to the products of developing countries and ensure for these products a larger share of the markets of developed countries, and devise measures designed to attain stable, equitable and remunerative prices for these products;

All developing countries, whether or not contracting parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, shall be entitled and enabled to participate

fully, effectively and continuously in all stages of these negotiations so that their interests arc fully taken into account;

All concessions that may be exchanged by developed countries among themselves shall automatically be extended to all developing countries;

Concessions granted by the developed countries to developing countries need not be extended to the developed countries;

In the negotiations among developing countries, the tariff and other concessions which they may negotiate among themselves shall not be extended to the developed countries;

The negotiations should, as a matter of priority, secure significant concessions for the products of particular interest to the least developed countries;

The utmost priority shall be accorded to the removal of all barriers to the products of export interest to developing countries in the markets of developed countries;

Concessions agreed upon in the negotiations in favour of developing countries shall be made available to them immediately and will not be phased, nor will accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade be a prior condition for the enjoyment of the benefits of such concessions;

Further invites the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to study and adopt:

New rules fully recognizing the right of developing countries, especially the land-locked countries, to non-reciprocity, non-discrimination and preferential treatment for developing countries, and to incorporate these rules in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade;

Objectives aimed at ensuring the acceleration of the economic development of developing countries;

( c) Objectives aimed at defining in the trade negotiations specific goals, both global and sectoral, and on a product-by-product basis;

Invites the Preparatory Committee for the Trade Negotiations to study ways and means for economic and financial compensation for any loss incurred by developing countries as a result of these negotiations;

Reconunends that the negotiations should, as a matter of priority, secure significant concessions for the primary commodities, including processed and semiprocessed products, for the least developed among the developing countries and for the land-locked developing countries, with a view to improving substantially their export of these products;

Further recommends that the trade negotiations should secure the liberalization of tariff and non-tariff barriers on a preferential basis for the exports of developing countries, whether or not contracting parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade;

Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to make intensive efforts to assist developing countries in the preparations for the negotiations and in the negotiations themselves, drawing up and implementing interregional, regional and country programmes. in full collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme and the secretariat of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade;

Endorses fully section D of resolution 82 ( III) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, particularly with regard to co-ordination between the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the Director-General of the General Ae;rccmcnt on Tariffs and Trade;

Requests and recommends that in general the decisions and measures that the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade adopt in favour of the developing countries should be applicable to all of them; it also requests and recommends that, in whatever action or special measures they take in favour of the least developed countries. they should ensure that the interests of the other developing countries are in no way harmed or prejudiced.

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