More than 50 countries of the African Group as well as Pakistan have raised a red flag against seemingly asymmetrical provisions in the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Agriculture that fail to provide a special safeguard mechanism to face sudden and unforeseen surges in food products.
While industrialized countries such as the United States, the European Union, Japan, Norway and several developing countries are able to cushion their agriculture with safeguard provisions in the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture to stop unforeseen imports of agricultural products, a large majority of developing countries do not have such a facility.
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