Brussels, 21/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - The effort agreed on Wednesday in Jakarta in agriculture by “friends of special products” developing countries could prove decisive in producing a breakthrough in Doha negotiations. It could help encourage the main trade powers of the G6 (European Union, US, Brazil, India, Australia and Japan) to swiftly move to a compromise on trade liberalisation modalities on agriculture and manufacturing goods. At the end of Wednesday's meeting, the Indonesian minister of trade, Mari Elka Pangestu provided few details about the results of the discussions but did say that significant progress had been made: G33 agreed to “revise” its list of special products (equivalent of sensitive products for developed countries - either products exempted from low tariff brought about by a multilateral agreement) and to, “reduce it to…a much more transparent and simplified list”. Pangestu, revised expectations downwards on Tuesday for obtaining a positive result at the end of the meeting but did describe the concessions agreed to by the G33 as a “positive commitment” to the Doha Round. He Indian counterpart, Kamal Nath, head of the emerging G20 countries also re-evaluated his judgement positively, “This meeting was to signal that the G33, a group of countries with a very vulnerable agriculture sector, large population of subsistence farmers, are willing to constructively engage”. The head of Brazilian diplomacy Celso Amorim and Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson were both at Jakarta and welcomed the positive results from the G33 meeting. The former said that the results were essential in reaching a compromise by June. Mandelson said that, “I fee we should be more confident” but pointed out that they were pressed for time and that all negotiating groups should now move towards a multilateral compromise on modalities by the end of April. He explained, “If we aim to get the sort of agreement we are aiming for in June the multilateral process that precedes that will take about two months. That means any convergence we are going to achieve amongst the few has to be put in place by the end of April. That's the sort of timescale we are looking at”. The mandate for the Bush Administration, granted by the US Congress, “the Trade Promotion Authority, expires at the end of June. (eh)