capacity. We are committed to moving quickly in taking steps to address this issue by enhancing
market function, including through coordinated actions that identify and seek to eliminate such
subsidies and support, and by encouraging adjustment. In this regard, we are prepared to consult
with other major producing countries, utilizing venues such as OECD and other fora, and, as
necessary and consistent with the WTO rules and disciplines, to consider the broad range of trade
policy instruments and actions to enforce our rights. Our experts will continue to coordinate actions,
working with other countries affected by this issue.
We underline that the rules-based multilateral trading system, which is embodied in the WTO, has
helped to create a strong and prosperous world economy. We continue to strengthen the functions of
the WTO, including on negotiation, dispute settlement and monitoring. We welcome the successful
conclusion of the Nairobi Ministerial Conference, and in order to solidify our achieved outcomes in
the recent Ministerial Conferences, call for a swift entry into force of the Trade Facilitation Agreement
(TFA) by the end of 2016 and its full implementation, including through a coordinated approach to Aid
for Trade, and the implementation of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) expansion as
agreed. We aim to conclude an ambitious Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA) that eliminates
tariffs on a broad range of environmental products by the G20 Summit in September in Hangzhou,
having in mind a future oriented agreement. We also look forward to concluding negotiations on an
ambitious, balanced and mutually beneficial Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) by the end of 2016.
At the same time, we promote forward-looking post-Nairobi discussions with our partners in various
fora, addressing outstanding and new issues as well as new formats of negotiations. We call on all
WTO members to engage constructively and with sense of urgency to restart negotiations in Geneva,
so that the WTO meets the needs of the private sector including SMEs and other stakeholders, as
digital technologies and Global Value Chains transform the global movement of goods, services and
investment. As an increasing number of developing countries have started to benefit from this
changing environment, we recognize the need to shed a new light on the positive role of trade on
growth and development, and we look forward to useful work by the OECD and other international
organizations.
As a useful complement and a building block to the multilateral trading system, we encourage trade
liberalization efforts in various forms. The signing of the TPP is an important step forward for the
establishment of a platform for common trade rules and trade integration across the Asia-Pacific
region, and we encourage each TPP signatory to complete its domestic process. We welcome the
strong commitment of Japan and the EU to reach agreement in principle on a comprehensive,
high-level and balanced Japan-EU EPA as early as possible in 2016. We are committed to applying
the necessary political will to reach a TTIP agreement as early as this year, provided that it is
ambitious, comprehensive, high standard and mutually beneficial, with a view to harnessing the full
potential of the transatlantic economy as soon as possible. We welcome the shared commitment of
Canada and the EU to sign CETA this year. We encourage Canada and the EU to bring CETA into
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