Agriculture is part of the crucial undertaking in which virtually all the linked negotiations of the WTO Doha round talks were scheduled to end by 1 January 2005. Negotiations on agriculture began in early 2000, under Article 20 of the WTO Agriculture Agreement. Nevertheless, because of the wide range of views and interests among importing and exporting countries, and the complexity of many issues, agriculture has held up progress in other WTO subject deliberations as these negotiators waited for an outcome of deliberations in agriculture.

During the 2003 Cancun Ministerial Conference, Taiwan and nine other small-agriculture and net-food-importing countries, i.e., Bulgaria, Iceland, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Liechtenstein, Mauritius, Norway and Switzerland, created the G-10 Group. The G-10 Group is to consolidate the members' common negotiation stance and to show the group's strength in agricultural talks, especially on the non-trade concerns and safeguard issues.

The WTO General Council on 1 August 2004 adopted the "July Framework Package." This framework is to provide guidelines for negotiators on how to draw up the "modalities" for reduction commitments to be made on a product-specific basis. After that, the 6th WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong , December of 2005 reached an agreement on the deadlines to eliminate all forms of agricultural export subsidies, remove all forms of export subsidies and tariffs for cotton, and implement duty-free and quota-free market access for all products from the least-developed countries. Besides, the conference agreed to establish modalities for reduction commitments by 30 April 2006. However, the WTO trade talks were suspended on 24 July 2006 after the WTO members failed again to reach a consensus on agricultural subsidies and non-agricultural market access.

Since the July 2006 suspension, a number of consultations have been held by several chairs of the negotiating committees, key members, and different country groupings. On 16 November 2006, the director general of the WTO, Pascal Lamy, announced a "soft resumption" of the WTO Doha round talks to softly resume the negotiating process in order to multilateralism bilateral and plurilateral contacts, and hopefully to conclude in 2007. This means that, for the time being, the soft resumption is of a technical nature. To augment both Taiwan's and G-10's stance in the future agricultural talks, Taiwan will be proactive in the G-10, and strengthen its cooperation with the new WTO members for securing their deserved flexible treatments.