Geneva: On the eve of the crucial WTO meeting of key trade ministers in Geneva, India said that level of cuts in agricultural subsidies and industrial tariffs may be negotiated beyond the range proposed in the draft texts if there is consensus among the rich and developing nations.

"There are numbers in the text and whether we can go beyond is something that will be negotiated. It is possible on a few isolated cases that we may even go beyond numbers if there is a consensus among ministers," Commerce Secretary Gopal Pillai said that after the meeting of the G - 33, the agriculture alliance of the developing countries.

He said that if developed countries like the US go outside the range (as given in the agriculture and Non - Agricultural Market Access texts circulated in the WTO) for cutting farm and industrial tariffs, then anybody else can also go outside the numbers.

The World Trade Organisation has convened a five - day mini Ministerial Meeting beginning on July 21 to infuse urgency into the long-running Doha trade talks. "We should know the vision tour of the 30 odd trade ministers for the entire agriculture and NAMA by tomorrow evening," Pillai said.

India will also present its list of offers and demands for market access in services at the WTO Signalling Conference scheduled on July 24. The 30 nations participating in the meeting would also submit their list of five offers and demands in the area of services at the Signalling Conference.

Services Chair Ambassador Fernando de Mateo of Mexico is also expected to put out a text on services after the ministers' conference. He has circulated a services report on July 17. "At the moment there is nothing (in services). They are just good intentions," Pillai said. (PTI)