A Law Study On Cairns Group Participation In The WTO Agricultural Negotiations

In the negotiation of WTO multilateral trade, agricultural negotiation always be the focusthat each countries controvert.In Uruguay Round, agricultural legal problem start to get intomultilateral negotiation and sign “Agreement on Agriculture”Every members have conflicts inagricultural product problem benefit in Doha Round negotiation since from2001,undergonebumpy failure, framework accord difficultly appear,Hong Kong declaration has a littleprogress, model protocol adopt proposal. In negotiation, each members focus on their ownprofit, negotiation get caught up in stalemate so many time. In the same time we can see: atthe time our country have not power to defend our profit, many countries tend to unite thesepossess similar require countries to resist these opposite position member countries, use thepower of clan to seek for the voice. In the Uruguay and Doha Round negotiation, CairnsGroup successfully organize and establish national benefit clan, their positive postureconstantly obtain success. Even European Union and Japan cannot but to compromise withthem on some issues. In the current multilateral negotiation, even the same as developingcountry, their national profit not completely same, in our country, it is hard to confirm ournegotiation position. Thus, to external or foreign we confirm Cairns Group model, coordinategroup relationship, to domestic we deal with the relative agricultural law is our top priorityjob.This article primary constitute by introduction,document,main text, include the followingseveral aspect:The introduction part briefly introduces the accurate grasp the national interests in thedoha development round to our country and the importance of Cairns Group referencevalue,Combing the basic theory for agricultural trade, the WTO agricultural negotiations,WTO member countries interests, Cairns Group research status at home and abroad, andpoints out the present study are lack of systemic problems.First part is the concise overview of Cairns Group, it include the development process ofCairns Group and the introduce of Cairns Group member feature.As the basis of the full text,which is related to the development of Cairns Group forming process, the exploratorydevelopment meeting for group alliance experience generalizes the bargain of internal and external environment. Also introduces the Cairns Group characteristics of the membersof the coordination between its members and mutually beneficial, restrictions, and constraintsare compared.Second part mention the form process of WTO agricultural negotiation legal regulation,to be aimed at the form and development of WTO agricultural legal regulation provide asystematical understanding.Third part approve horizontal comparison to confirm each major conflict countriesposition of agriculture legal topic.Fourth part is the focal point of this text, introduce the Cairns Group in the WTOdifficult process and they push and reach legal problem.Confirmed Cairns Group on the basisof clear its basic position, integration advantages, realize the overall interests, major powers,affecting the formation of rules of WTO agricultural reform and the success of the mode ofcollectivization.Fifth part pass through the fourth part summary, to be aimed at our country’s agriculturallegal situation, propose solution.