Jefatura de Gabinete de Ministros 1 - Informe Uruguay

domestic and international value chains is a major challenge. This situation may be
further complicated by concentrated market structures at the international and
national level. Furthermore, countries often face difficulties in meeting the standards
and requirements in developed countries’ markets.
On the other hand, the dynamic sectors in world trade represent new and emerging
trading prospects for developing countries, and enhancing their participation in such
sectors is important in realizing development gains from international trade and trade
negotiations. New opportunities are also provided by high-value-added, special and
niche product and services sectors in which developing countries have potential
comparative advantages. Creative industries can help foster positive externalities
while preserving and promoting cultural heritages and diversity. Enhancing
developing countries' participation in and benefit from new and dynamic growth
opportunities in world trade is important in realizing development gains from
international trade and trade negotiations, and represents a positive sum game for
developed and developing countries.
Most developing countries have made important efforts at trade liberalization under
very
difficult circumstances, underscoring their interest in using trade as an engine of
development and poverty reduction. They deserve due recognition for their efforts in
this respect. Some have succeeded in participating in global export growth in a
sustainable way. Others, however, have not. The share of the African countries and
LDCs in world trade has continued to fall, and their terms of trade have deteriorated,
making it difficult for them to build competitive productive and supply capacity. In the
face of this, all WTO members have committed themselves to the objectives of dutyfree,
quota-free market access for products originating in LDCs. Equally important
are the special needs of small economies, small island developing States and of
landlocked developing countries, within a new global framework for transit transport
cooperation for landlocked and transit developing countries in accordance with the
Almaty Ministerial Declaration and the Almaty Programme of Action, particularly
those relating to their inherent disadvantages and vulnerabilities. The challenge
remains to increase the participation of a wider number of developing countries in
global export growth. In this context it is necessary to take into account the specific
development, financial and trade needs of developing countries, considering that
there is no one-size-fits-all trade and development strategy.
All countries have a shared interest in the success of the Doha Work Programme,
which aims both at further increasing trading opportunities and reducing barriers to
trade amongst nations and at making the trading system more development-friendly.
This would contribute to the objective of upholding and safeguarding an open,
equitable, rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory multilateral trading system.
A major contribution of the Doha Ministerial Declaration was to place the needs and
interests of developing countries at the heart of the Doha Work Programme. This
important objective needs to be pursued with a view to bringing about concrete
development-oriented outcomes from the multilateral trade negotiations.
As identified in the Doha Work Programme and in its implementation, the Monterrey
Consensus and General Assembly resolution 58/197 on international trade and
development, issues of particular concern to developing countries and countries with
economies in transition in international trade include:
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