A Law Study On G-33 In The WTO Agricultural Negotiations

The WTO multilateral trading system is full of competitions among states. From GATT to WTO, developed members dominates the multilateral trading negotiations and determines the trend of the WTO rules which has damaged the interests of developing members. Developing countries adopt new negotiation styles in the Doha Round. They try to protect their interests in WTO negotiations by alignment. Developing members are playing an important role in the Doha round.G33 has successfully organized interest group in Doha negotiation and competed with the United States and the Cairns Group on the issue of special products and special safeguard mechanism. The Bali agreement is also a result of a compromise which the United States make to G33 on food security. However, since the members of G33 are complex and their own interests are different, G33 is always faced with the challenge to maintain stabilization. As a member of G33, China has to make a deep research on the connection mode of G33. It can make a direction for us to protect our country interests in WTO negotiations.This article consists of the introduction and the body, specifically including the following aspects:The introduction part briefly introduces the importance of the national interest group for the developing members in the WTO negotiations.And includes the analysis of the academic research at home and abroad. It briefly combs the theory of the WTO interest groups between states, the general situation of G33 and its participation in the WTO agricultural negotiations. In the end, it indicates the lack of systemic problems in present study.The first part is an overview on the mean legal issues in the WTO agricultural negotiations. Firstly, it systematically combs the formation and development of the rules of market access, domestic support and export competition. And then analysis the main contradictions.The second part is the main part of this paper, which combs the strategies which G33 has taken in the negotiations.It confirms that G33 integrated advantages, realized the overall interests, so it can contend against the main developed countries.The third part combs the performances of G33 in the WTO agricultural negotiations. It combs the formation of G33’s text and summarizes the main ways of how G33 cohere with the agricultural negotiations and it has promoted the law reformation in agriculture field.The forth part is to discuss the problems and challenges of G33 in WTO negotiations, including the coordination issue and issues of how to keep up the group.The fifth part analysis the interest connections between China and G33, and then makes some suggestions for China’s positioning and strategy in negotiations.