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At the Fourth Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar, in November 2001, Ministers agreed to launch negotiations on certain aspects of the trade and environment linkage. These negotiations aim at clarifying the relationship between the multilateral trade and environment regimes, and cover also information exchange between WTO committees and multilateral environmental agreement (MEA) secretariats, as well as the liberalization of trade in environmental goods and services. These negotiations are taking place in Special Sessions of the CTE (CTESS) and are an important contribution to sustainable development. Canada's objective in participating in the CTESS is to reduce or, as appropriate, eliminate, tariff and non-tariff barriers to environmental goods and services. In FY 2004-05, Canada continued to work towards this objective with the view to tabling a list of environmental goods for examination by the CTE in June 2005. The list was presented June 11, 2005.
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