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Some thoughts on the Jun 12-15 slimline WTO Ministerial Conference #DietMC12

The biggest challenge: persuading ministers it’s worth travelling to Geneva in the first place

What does “slimline” entail?

• Most decisions taken before the meeting—ministers just endorse them

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• Those decisions will be more technical (eg extending duty-free e-commerce) than political.

• Big political decisions are unlikely before or during the conference anyway (agriculture, even fisheries subsidies, reforming dispute settlement)

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• Ministers would not negotiate anything, except maybe final touches to almost-agreed non-binding packages: responses to the pandemic, food security.

• Or a decision to exempt the World Food Programme from export restrictions (only India and Tanzania holding out)

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