“Meaningful reforms that would improve market access for agricultural products and the WTO’s dispute settlement system have escaped recent WTO ministerial conferences. The U.S. dairy industry is limited by this inaction as we seek to alleviate global food insecurity challenges through our nutritious and sustainable products.
“The U.S. dairy industry and our partners across U.S. agriculture are hopeful this week’s conference charts a path toward concrete, binding commitments in the future, consistent with our recent proposals to the United States Trade Representative and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In particular, we would like ongoing conversations around domestic support to be balanced by commensurate market access discussions, and we would like the U.S. government to work to restore a binding dispute settlement system at the WTO. In the event these reforms do not reach consensus among the body’s 164 members, we encourage the U.S. government to pursue plurilateral negotiations to advance these and other critical reform priorities.”
IDFA members support meaningful WTO reform across multiple subjects as one of their trade priorities. IDFA supports this priority in part through its active participation in the Aggies for WTO Reform Coalition since 2022, joining with representatives from across U.S. agriculture to ensure U.S. dairy’s interests are being represented at the WTO.
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