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insisting that developing countries open up their markets to provide access to their subsidized products.�69 India sees the trade distorting policies of the United States as hampering the ability of the rest of the world to compete in global markets thereby hindering the development of free trade that America seems to extol. India wants subsidies to be eliminated and for developed states to open their markets to products that are labor intensive in order to provide developing nations with an advantage in the market. At the collapse of the Doha Round, India joined what seemed to be a consensus regarding farm subsidies and market access. After the failure of the July 2006 WTO talks, India sought trade agreements directly with various trading blocs and with individual states like the European Union and Japan.70
Australia Australia seeks the development of a multilateral trade agreement that will provide increased access to world markets.
Australia is committed to the success of Doha
Rounds because jobs and standards of living within the country are viewed as being dependent on their performance within the international market, as Australia is a medium-sized trading nation that competes with larger, more powerful states. It is thus important to Australia that they have access to overseas markets for agriculture, services, and industrial goods through a rules-based multilateral trading system. Agriculture is especially important to Australia as the state is a non-subsidized producer and faces trade distortions caused by the subsidies placed on the farming sector by powers such as the United States and the European Union. To this end, Australia wants to eliminate all forms of export subsidies.71 Australia believes in trade liberalization to ensure future markets and to bolster economic ties between states.
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Thakurta. Fraser. 71 “Position Paper: Australia and the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference.� 9-13 November 2001. Australian Government: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Accessed 1 August 2006. http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/negotiations/ministerial/aus_position.html. 70