Noting that agriculture lags behind the manufacturing sector in the process of establishment of multilateral disciplines and in the reduction of tariff and non-tariff barriers and that, since most of the world's poor make their living from agriculture, the livelihood and standards of living of many of them are seriously jeopardized by the serious distortions in production and trade in agricultural products caused by the high levels of export subsidies, trade-distorting domestic support and protectionism by many developed countries,
注意到在制订多边纪律过程中以及在减少关税和非关税壁垒方面，农业部门落后于制造业部门，而且由于世界上多数穷人均以农业为生，农产品的生产和贸易因许多发达国家的高额出口补贴、扭曲贸易的国内支助和保护主义而出现的严重歪曲，使他们中许多人的生计和生活水平受到严重损害，