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ASEAN seeks cooperation on WTO issues
The Hindu (New Delhi)
January 11, 2001
By Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI, JAN. 10. The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
will seek India's cooperation to tackle issues such as market access to
developed markets and dismantling agricultural subsidies and
anti-dumping abuses. The ASEAN Secretary-General, Mr. Rodolfo Severino,
has urged that India should work with the ASEAN to deal with inequitable
results of globalisation that have been discussed at forums such as the
World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting at Seattle.
He said, as currently practised, globalisation meant opening up markets
to goods of leading industrial nations such as high technology products
and financial services while developed country markets were closed to
goods that least developed countries were most capable of producing such
as garments and textiles.
``It allows certain developed countries to use their massive resources
to subsidise their agricultural exports in unfair competition with those
of other countries. It has enabled strong countries to abuse
anti-dumping measures.'' Mr. Severino, delivering the 11th India-ASEAN
Eminent Persons lecture organised by the Research and Information
Systems (RIS), said that to counter these problems, the ASEAN and India
must continue to cooperate in pressing for access to developed markets
of products in which developing countries were most competitive. They
should together dismantle ``pernicious'' agricultural export subsidies
and anti-dumping abuses.
On closer economic ties, he said a joint study was being conducted on
ways of establishing linkages between India and the ASEAN Free Trade
Area. ASEAN-China and ASEAN-Japan economic linkages would also be
studied. He felt these could form the basis of an over-arching system of
easier trade flows and other economic relations in the Asia-Pacific.
Another area of cooperation could be the pharmaceutical sector.
Information technology was another obvious area for cooperation. India
and ASEAN, except Singapore, lag far behind developed countries in terms
of the usage and penetration of IT, he said.
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<p>The Hindu (New Delhi)
<br>January 11, 2001
<p>By <b>Our Special Correspondent</b>
<p><b>NEW DELHI, JAN. 10.</b> The Association of South East Asian Nations
(ASEAN) will seek India's cooperation to tackle issues such as market access
to developed markets and dismantling agricultural subsidies and anti-dumping
abuses. The ASEAN Secretary-General, Mr. Rodolfo Severino, has urged that
India should work with the ASEAN to deal with inequitable results of globalisation
that have been discussed at forums such as the World Trade Organisation
(WTO) meeting at Seattle.
<p>He said, as currently practised, globalisation meant opening up markets
to goods of leading industrial nations such as high technology products
and financial services while developed country markets were closed to goods
that least developed countries were most capable of producing such as garments
and textiles.
<p>``It allows certain developed countries to use their massive resources
to subsidise their agricultural exports in unfair competition with those
of other countries. It has enabled strong countries to abuse anti-dumping
measures.'' Mr. Severino, delivering the 11th India-ASEAN Eminent Persons
lecture organised by the Research and Information Systems (RIS), said that
to counter these problems, the ASEAN and India must continue to cooperate
in pressing for access to developed markets of products in which developing
countries were most competitive. They should together dismantle ``pernicious''
agricultural export subsidies and anti-dumping abuses.
<p>On closer economic ties, he said a joint study was being conducted on
ways of establishing linkages between India and the ASEAN Free Trade Area.
ASEAN-China and ASEAN-Japan economic linkages would also be studied. He
felt these could form the basis of an over-arching system of easier trade
flows and other economic relations in the Asia-Pacific. Another area of
cooperation could be the pharmaceutical sector.
<p>Information technology was another obvious area for cooperation. India
and ASEAN, except Singapore, lag far behind developed countries in terms
of the usage and penetration of IT, he said.
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