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Ads by Google      Foreign Affairs - Rescuing the Doha Round - C. Fred Bergsten If the major industrial nations are serious about Doha, they will have to devote important parts of their domestic policy agendas to these issues over the next few years. The recent votes against the European constitution and the Schröder government in Germany reveal a split between deep unhappiness with the current economic situation and opposition to the very reforms that are needed to improve that situation. European support for liberalization can probably be restored only through resolute pursuit of the Lisbon agenda's structural reforms (including of agriculture) by new governments with enough time left in office to reap the benefits that would ultimately result. http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20051201faessay84702/c-fred-bergsten/rescuing-the-doha-round.html?mode=print   (3379 words)      EUROPA - Rapid - Press Releases But that Round left crucial unfinished business: little liberalisation in the field of services; hugely diverging tariff conditions across the WTO membership, including the persistence of very high duties in middle income countries; and unacceptable pockets of high tariffs in high income countries. In the EU, we are committed to a result in which, simply put, all WTO nations will commit, according to their means and their needs, to offering new, real business opportunities to economic operators from other countries, be it in industry, agriculture, or services. He argues that a successful outcome from this current round can offer the biggest injection of confidence into the global economy and multilateral system of cooperation in the face of uncertainties created by global security threats and the oil shock. http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/05/505&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en   (3242 words)      LAUNCH PROSPECTS FOR THE DOHA ROUND The immediate timing issue of concern of course is whether WTO Members will be able to agree soon on the structure of the Trade Negotiation Committee and the negotiation plan for the Doha Round. From an organisational perspective, the 5th WTO Ministerial Conference to be held in 2003 will be the decision point for the fate of the Doha Round. Though unfortunate, the fact is that the US steel lobby has been able to amend US antidumping legislation over the years to enhance their level of protection. http://www.thunderlake.com/doharound.html   (2713 words)      Commonwealth - Putting Development Back Into The Doha Round In November, I will be looking to secure a very strong outcome on the Doha Round when the 53 Commonwealth Heads of Government meet in November, just before the Hong Kong ministerial meeting. This is why we are here today - to put 'development' back into the Doha Round and to discuss ways in which the countries you represent - the Commonwealth - can help advance the current trade talks and deliver an outcome that will benefit everyone. What I do mean is that the Commonwealth should more resolutely puts its considerable political weight behind a successful development round, knowing of course that this is what our leaders called for in their Aso Rock Statement on Multilateral Trade adopted at the Abuja CHOGM fourteen months ago. http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=142473&PrintFriendly=True   (2035 words)      The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : REVIVAL OF DOHA ROUND A positive outcome is that the European Union has agreed formally to the deletion from the Doha agenda of three extremely controversial `Singapore' or new issues — foreign investment, competition policies, and transparency in government procurement. FOR THE FIRST time since its launch in 2001, the Doha Round of negotiations of the World Trade Organisation has yielded a reasonably balanced agreement that should satisfy both rich and poor countries. The developed countries have not given up on demands that the developing countries should open their health, education, and many other social services to foreign suppliers. http://www.hindu.com/2004/08/04/stories/2004080400801000.htm   (635 words)      A Genuine Development Agenda for the Doha Round of WTO Negotiations Outstanding issues from that Round must be resolved as an urgent priority, and implemented on a definitive basis at an early stage (as provided for in Ministerial Declaration para 47). At the conclusion of the Uruguay Round in 1994, calculations by the UNDP and OECD showed that within six years global income would grow by US$200-500 billion as a result of the round. Yet these measures give an indication of the immediate steps which are needed if the Doha Round is to have any claim to be a genuine development agenda. http://www.ukabc.org/doha_dev_round.htm   (3061 words)      WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: Starring Role for the Doha Round The ministers agreed in Doha that the modalities for the negotiation of each issue are to be set by the time the Hong Kong meeting opens. According to the agreements reached by the ministers in Doha, prior to the Hong Kong conference the negotiators are to concentrate on coming up with solutions in five key areas: agriculture, market access for industrial goods, services, special and differential treatment of developing nations, and trade rules. The agreement reached by the ministers in their meeting on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum paves the way for the sixth World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial conference slated for next December in Hong Kong, where the decisive phase of the multilateral trade negotiations is to begin. http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=27244   (900 words)      Paper: Reviving the Doha Round Others were less well informed—which is another problem in the WTO—and demanded advance payments on trade reforms and monetary compensation for the Doha Round to proceed—demands that stretched well beyond the jurisdiction of the WTO and exceeded the competence of the ministers involved in the WTO. In my view, this clause merely reiterates standard practice in the WTO, namely that developing countries commit to market access reforms to the extent practicable given their level of development and are accorded a longer transition period to implement those reforms. WTO members explicitly committed in the Doha Declaration to liberalize restrictions that adversely affect the trade of developing countries. http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/schott0604.htm   (3115 words)      EUROPEAN UNION FARM COMMISSIONER FRANZ FISCHLER CALLS FOR PROGRESS IN DOHA ROUND IN 2004 Re-opening a discussion on the Doha agenda has seemed totally counterproductive. It is about export monopolies, whether Canadian, Australian or from New Zealand, an area where the absence of any disciplines allows both US and Canada to claim victory in the recent dispute on the Canadian Wheat Board. "The Doha mandate is also about export credits and surplus disposal in the guise of 'food aid,' used mainly by the US. http://www.eurunion.org/News/press/2004/20040024.htm   (1642 words)      WTO Meeting in Doha, Qatar, 2001 - Global Issues Those of us in Doha were witness, as the Equations team puts it, "to the highhanded unethical negotiating practices of the developed countries - linking aid budgets and trade preferences to the trade positions of developing countries and targeting individual developing country negotiators." As with the other ministerial conferences the purpose was to negotiate a new round of trade agreements. Yet, as the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First for short) reports, "Given the experience of the last six years in the WTO, any economist knows that presenting the launch of a new round as a solution for global recession is a tactic to pressurize countries at this sensitive time. http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/FreeTrade/Doha.asp   (3704 words)      [No title] Instead of approaching negotiation as reciprocal concessions, one has to view the Doha round as an undertaking to provide a global public good - a rules-based multilateral trading system. Since there are no clear indications that the transatlantic partners are willing and ready to lead, I remain skeptical that anything positive will be decided at the WTO General Council meeting in Geneva. Negotiators should agree to accept free trade as a global good, not as a subject of mercantilist bargaining http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/article.print?id=3012   (1349 words)      Asia Business Today Supachai discusses the next round of global trade talks and the outlook for the Qatar ministerial, the impact of regional and bilateral trade liberalization initiatives on multilateral trade negotiations, and other key issues facing the World Trade Organization. The two countries would also further benefit from the opening up of global trade in these sectors which are both vitally important to their economies. Trade ministers agreed to launch a new round of talks to boost trade flows and focus on the needs of developing countries. http://www.asiabusinesstoday.org/briefings/index.cfm?id=65691   (1882 words)      Cordell Hull Institute: Policy Forum: Doha Round Negotiations GOVERNMENTS should prepare to re-launch the Doha Round negotiations in 2005 at the World Trade Organization’s ministerial conference in Hong Kong and aim to complete them early in 2007, suggests Clayton Yeutter, chairman of the Cordell Hull Institute in Washington. He reiterated that a WTO agreement is still Australia’s number one goal since it would provide the “broadest and deepest benefits”. The WTO Director-General could extend the TPRM “at the stroke of a pen”, Dr Stoeckel says, to include economy-wide analysis of the costs and benefits of trade-policy interventions in the market process. http://www.cordellhullinstitute.org/policy/doha.html   (2215 words)      WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION DOHA ROUND: STATEMENT BY EUROOPEAN UNION TRADE COMMISSIONER Peter Mandelson has set out the EU’s conditional negotiating proposals in the Doha Development Round in a statement circulated to Ministers at the Informal Ministerial in Zurich on October 10, 2005. "The EU is reiterating its support for a 'Round for Free' for Least Developed Countries – asymmetrical tariffs cuts from developed countries without a reciprocal requirement for LDCs. The current CAP reform that is now coming into effect allows this. http://www.eurunion.org/news/press/2005/2005084.htm   (4898 words)      PROSPECTS FOR THE DOHA TRADE ROUND AND STEPS BY AFRICAN COUNTRIES TO DRAW ON THE POST At the same time, the benefits of trade reform and liberalization (even when undertaken on an autonomous basis, outside of the framework of multilateral concessions) need to be better understood and integrated into the process of domestic economic reforms, which are essential for drawing on the opportunities that will arise from trade expansion. The second part of my presentation is to offer suggestions on steps that African countries need to take to draw and maximise on the benefits from the Post-Doha multilateral trading system. Upfront, let me say that this is an urgent and timely subject. http://www.uneca.org/cfm/2004/prospects_for_the_doha_trade_rou.htm   (2220 words)      [No title] Complete realisation of the Doha Development Agenda can only be one step on the road towards sustainable poverty reduction and achievement of the development goals set out in the Millennium Declaration. Already we can safely say, however, that negotiations can only be successful if the concept of the development round remains more than just an empty phrase and adequate account is taken of the needs and interests of the developing countries. The WTO’s creation of the Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund to finance its technical co-operation goes a long towards honouring this commitment to provide increased trade-related technical assistance. http://www.southcentre.org/info/southbulletin/bulletin62/bulletin62-01.htm   (4444 words)      The Manila Times Internet Edition OPINION > WTO going pfft with wayward Doha round talks That which still allows EU to selectively subsidize exports and that which cleverly abets the US to bankroll export credit programs that now run at over US$7 billion a year. With higher import bill passed on to consumers, a decreasing purchasing power in a measly disposable income is a scarecrow by the window." What’s more, a raw trade deal would diminish the capacity of poor countries to secure foreign investment, modern technology and assured export markets. http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2004/aug/01/yehey/opinion/20040801opi4.html   (1463 words)      Doha Trade Round: Political Jellyfish, Irish economic consequences and World Bank's call for 75% reduction in official ... They continue by saying that the distribution criteria for Pillar Two funds should be changed so that poorer nations have a bigger slice of the money to boost their rural economies. Peter Mandelson, the EU Trade Commissioner, said that the EU's “substantive, comprehensive and credible” offer “should bridge the sharply divergent interests in the membership of the World Trade Organisation”. Ireland's net receipts from EU Budget rose €34m in 2004; Irish top per capita beneficiaries in EU15 at €396 http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10003764.shtml   (2579 words)      WTO Current negotiations and implementation - gateway The implementation decision, combined with paragraph 12 of the main Doha Declaration, provides a two-track solution. How the negotiations are organized: the Trade Negotiations Committee, its subsidiaries, principles and timetables. The subject headings cover the over 40 items settled at or before the Doha conference, for immediate delivery http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dda_e/dda_e.htm   (549 words)      [No title] One clear priority for our work in the immediate future must be to reduce this burden to manageable proportions by reaching understanding on as many of these issues as possible before the Ministerial Conference. I also suggest you consider what you need to do at Cancún beyond the specific requirements laid down at Doha in respect of various sectors. After all, if so many regional or bilateral agreements can envisage bold steps in these areas why should the multilateral trading system lag behind? http://www.southcentre.org/info/southbulletin/bulletin57/bulletin57-07.htm   (1260 words)      IPC and the Doha Round The goal of the Doha Development Round is to bring the benefits of more open markets to developing countries. Developing countries that produce commodities benefiting from preferences, and developed country farmers who are also protected by preferences are deeply worried about the potential loss of preferential arrangements. In February 2004, the IPC released an assessment of Derbez’s draft text against the dual goals of furthering agricultural trade reform and achieving the development objectives of the Doha Round entitled http://www.agritrade.org/Doha.htm   (1312 words)      Hot Topics: Prospects for the Doha Round Trade ministers from member countries of the World Trade Organization (WTO) convened in Hong Kong in December 2005 to jump-start the flagging Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations. The industrial countries anted up kernels of subsidy reform and development assistance, but all of the big-ticket items were studiously deferred to future meetings. The Hong Kong ministerial was not a complete bust. http://www.iie.com/research/topics/hottopic.cfm?HotTopicID=4   (190 words)      A. Most recent negotiations and events in WTO (inclu. Doha preparatory process) Snow-job underway on Doha agendas on S&D and implementation? A new trade round, with 'development agenda' for US-EC corporations (C.Raghavan) 27 Sept 2001 G7 calls for a new round, with 'balanced agenda' (C.Raghavan) 22 Jul 2001 http://www.twnside.org.sg/trade_1.htm   (2645 words)      Ben Muse: What happens if the Doha Round fails? If the WTO lacks the ability to address new issues as trade evolves, even more governments will pursue bilateral deals, which may be good for local producers but are notoriously bad for international business. Sure, we'll lose the benefits we might have had from trade reform this time. If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account, please Sign In http://benmuse.typepad.com/ben_muse/2005/08/what_happens_if.html   (459 words)      WTO boss warns of possible delays in Doha trade round - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM The WTO wants to cement the Doha round ahead of that event, to hedge against the agreement being voted down and/or amended by the US Congress. In three months, the WTO is to assess progress on technical consultations for a more precise picture of what path the Hong Kong discussions will likely take in December. But while meetings are now ongoing to deal with these and other issues, Panitchpakdi said the spate of bilateral and other free trade agreements being negotiated around the world had distracted members. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/magazines/Business/html/20050501T020000-0500_79695_OBS_WTO_BOSS_WARNS_OF_POSSIBLE_DELAYS_IN_DOHA_TRADE_ROUND.asp   (694 words)      CSIS Globalization 101 - At the Doha conference, developing country members successfully lobbied for a declaration on TRIPS stating that pharmaceutical patents should not prevent member countries with public health epidemics from accessing vital medicines, an agreement as crucial for country that lack the ability to manufacture needed pharmaceuticals themselves. Developed country members were determined, therefore, to demonstrate the value of trade liberalization for non-Western, developing countries by making this a "development round." Last November, the members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) held a Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar and launched a new round of trade liberalization. http://www.globalization101.org/news.asp?NEWS_ID=39   (939 words)      TRADE: Doha Round Enters Stage of Convalescence The Doha Round goes beyond agriculture to encompass tariffs on industrial goods, services, intellectual property, the simplification of customs procedures known as trade facilitation, and other questions. The head of Uruguay's negotiators, Guillermo Vallés, said the agreement left all of the countries in a more balanced bargaining position for September, when the Doha Round is to resume, after summer vacation in the WTO. But the debate on the new framework for the talks was polarised over the issue of agriculture, between developing countries on the one hand and a great majority of the industrialised nations on the other. http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=24894   (819 words)      Column: Brazil threatens to sandbag Doha Round negotiations The WTO is expected to try to finalize the Doha Round agreement at the ministerial meeting in Hong Kong in December. Agriculture Minister Roberto Rodrigues said recently Brazil will try to enlist the aid of China to help make U.S. farm subsidies a focus of the ministerial meeting in Hong Kong. Camargo’s comments were among several by Brazilian leaders on the Doha Round negotiations. http://southwestfarmpress.com/news/050128-column-Doha-negotiations   (556 words)      Global Economy Journal Robert Howse, WTO Governance and the Doha Round Alberto Trejos, Bilateral and Regional Free Trade Agreements, and Their Relationship with the WTO and the Doha Development Agenda Thea Lee, Commentary: Assessing the Benefits and Costs of the Doha Development Agenda Negotiations -- a Labor Perspective http://www.bepress.com/gej   (423 words)      CBS News Doha Trade Round at a Standstill Negotiations to reach a treaty that would cut global trade barriers in a wide array of sectors have reached an impasse over agriculture _ an issue that has dogged the current Doha round of talks since they started in Qatar's capital in 2001. Switzerland's Economics Minister Joseph Deiss, who is hosting the gathering, said Saturday's meeting should "give a clear political statement about our commitment to do this round in this year." But developing nations also criticize the United States and Japan for their trade barriers, saying that access to wealthy nations' agricultural markets is vital to their economic growth. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/28/ap/business/mainD8FDKOJ01.shtml   (489 words)      News Archive - Millennium Campaign In terms of policy change, it is the rich countries, especially the European Union, that need to liberalize their trade and agricultural policy regimes.  Poor countries, on the other hand, need to be allowed to retain the flexibility in agricultural policy which will allow them to implement programmes to help the poor in rural areas.  Goal 8 Urgent Action Alert: The Doha Trade Talks and European Agricultural Policy Immediate action is needed now by parliamentarians and by regular citizens in Europe, to push their governments and the European Commission to adopt a pro-development line in the current negotiations.  http://www.millenniumcampaign.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=grKVL2NLE&b=190470&ct=1498259   (453 words)      ASIL Insights:The Troubled Status of WTO Doha Round Negotiations [6] The Doha Development Agenda (DDA) was created in this powerful background. [25] On the US side, the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which has recently been passed by a slim margin,[26] may have exhausted political capital which would be needed to push through any future Doha deal in the Congress. It has been argued that the recent negative outcomes of the referenda on the European Constitution in major EU Member States are linked to peoples’ concerns about free trade when they witness effects such as job loss. http://www.asil.org/insights/2005/08/insights050825.html   (1913 words)      Doha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nearby is Education City, an area devoted to research and education. The city was made capital of the British protectorate of Qatar in 1916, and remained so when, in 1971, the nation won independence. The city is home to Doha International Airport and the major oil and fishing industries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doha   (282 words)      WTO Doha Round Bulletin - World Trade Organization (WTO) - Trade negotiations - Global Issues - Australian Department ... WTO Doha Round Bulletin - World Trade Organization (WTO) - Trade negotiations - Global Issues - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australia welcomes US push for new effort on World Trade Reform The WTO Doha Round Bulletin is issued by the Office of Trade Negotiations, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and summarises key WTO Doha Round-related activities in Geneva and Canberra. http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/negotiations/wto_bulletin   (446 words)      Oxfam - Trade - Africa and the Doha Round In fact, if negotiations continue along their current track, it is doubtful that the so-called Doha Development Round will bring tangible benefits to Africa in terms of enhanced opportunities for trading, business, and employment. But rich countries promised them that this round would be different: the Doha ‘Development Round’ would focus on the reform of WTO rules, with the specific aim of boosting the participation of poor countries in international trade. In 2001, African countries were reluctant to launch a new round of WTO negotiations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), because the Uruguay Round rules had not been fully implemented, and African governments were concerned that a new set of rules could hinder rather than foster development. http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/trade/bp80_africa_doha.htm   (579 words)      SSRN-Legal Services in the Doha Round by Sydney Cone As a subcategory of professional services and a sub-subcategory of business services, legal services, when supplied transnationally, are the subject of negotiation in the current round of multilateral trade negotiation known as the Doha Round. The negotiations on legal services that take place in the Doha Round have considerable potential for affecting the economics and activities of lawyers and law firms, and for influencing the content of local professional rules governing the practice of law. Cone, Sydney M., "Legal Services in the Doha Round". http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=413382   (195 words)      CalTrade Report - ''Doha Redivivus'' Much of the credit goes to Robert Zoellick, US trade representative. Doha Round, Robert Zoellick, CalTrade Report - ''Doha Redivivus'' - CalTrade ReportAsia Quake Victims Financial Times, 05/11/04 - Financial Times, 05/11/04 - ''Doha Redivivus'' The Doha trade round, which seemed headed for oblivion at the turn of the year, now appears on the brink of resuscitation. http://www.caltradereport.com/eWebPages/opinion-1084540827.html   (616 words)      AEI - Events Thus, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's annual survey and analysis of current national agricultural support policies is of central importance in assessing what is on the table in the negotiations, including the impact of new reform proposals from key players such as the United States and the European Union. Reform of trade-distorting national agricultural support policies is the central challenge to a successful conclusion of the WTO Doha Round of trade negotiations. Home > Events > Agriculture and the Doha Round http://www.aei.org/events/type.upcoming,eventID.838,filter.all/event_detail.asp   (151 words)      Article After member-countries picked up the pieces from Cancun, they negotiated the July 2004 'Framework Agreement' which dropped the three very controversial issues of investment, competition policies and government procurement and therefore made the agenda more focused and potentially less contentious than before. In spite of all these difficulties, it is not impossible for member-countries to strike a deal at Hong Kong, which would make a final agreement on the Doha round more likely than seems possible at present. But in a clear case of obstructionism, the EU and US have started squabbling about subsidies, an issue supposed to have been sorted out earlier. http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2005&leaf=08&filename=9023&filetype=html   (707 words)      Doha Round Briefing Series - World Trade Organization (WTO) - Trade IISD Mark Halle and Howard Mann of IISD's trade program offer a post-mortem of the Hong Kong Ministerial results. The Trade Knowledge Network produces research and capacity building on trade and sustainable development in the South. Multilateral trade negotiations under the Doha Round got underway in early 2002 at the World Trade Organization in Geneva. http://www.iisd.org/trade/wto/doha_briefing.asp   (331 words)      Boston.com / Business / Lamy: Doha Round Could Finish by End-'05 Boston.com / Business / Lamy: Doha Round Could Finish by End-'05 The Doha Round of trade talks could be concluded by the end of 2005, European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said on Sunday after the World Trade Organization struck a deal to put the stalled round back on track. GENEVA (Reuters) - The Doha Round of trade talks could be concluded by the end of 2005, European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said on Sunday after the World Trade Organization struck a deal to put the stalled round back on track. http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/07/31/lamy_doha_round_could_finish_by_end_05   (164 words)      IISD - What's New on the Linkages Website (Government of Canada 2002) In this assessment report, the Government of Canada concludes that Doha Round of trade negotiations will not adversely affect the Canadian environment. (IISD May 2002) This paper is based on an address prepared by Aaron Cosbey for the Royal Institute of International Affairs conference on Sustainable Development in the New Trade Round: Trade, Investment and Environment after Doha. Taking the Doha Language Seriously: The WTO as if Sustainable Development Really Mattered http://www.iisd.ca/whats_new/whatsnew05.html   (1641 words)      Doha round - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The purpose was to agree on the Doha Development Agenda, and from there negotiate opening agricultural and manufacturing markets. Agricultural protectionism is the most significant issue upon which agreement has been hardest to negotiate. The intent of the round was to make trade rules fairer for developing countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doha_Round   (806 words)      WTO Ministerial conferences - Doha 4th Ministerial The Fourth WTO Ministerial Conference was held in Doha, Qatar from 9 to 14 November 2001. http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/min01_e/min01_e.htm   (172 words)      Whither the WTO? A Progress Report on the Doha Round The new round, launched in Qatar in November 2001, will include negotiations on reducing barriers to trade in industrial goods, farm products, and services and taking the WTO into new territory to cover investment-, competition-, and environment-related trade policies. The new round presents great opportunities, but it also creates new risks for world trade. A Bush administration leading from the front, notwithstanding protectionist blemishes at home, must forge issue-based and across-the-board alliances with market-access-oriented WTO members, especially within the developing world. http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/pas/tpa-023es.html   (239 words)      Where are we in the Doha round? However, it cautions that whom these changes will benefit is a matter of conjecture. How can the Doha Round respond to development needs? This paper provides an overview of the Doha Round process, noting that it revolves around the liberalisation of agriculture, as the 'last frontier for trade liberalisation' and the arena where most gains stand to be made. http://www.eldis.org/static/DOC18124.htm   (261 words)      ICTSD - The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development The Doha Round Briefing Series is published by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) in collaboration with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). Features developments in WTO negotiations since September 2003, including the 'July Package' (the WTO General Council's 1 August 2004 framework agreement on the Doha agenda work programme). ICTSD - The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development http://www.ictsd.org/pubs/dohabriefings   (332 words)      National Journal: THE DOHA ROUND'S EMPTY FRAMEWORK@ HighBeam Research DEAL SWEETENERS: Developing countries want greater access to U.S. and European markets for the crops they grow competitively, such as sugar, which is heavily subsidized in the United States. It is a mark of the shakiness of the two-and-a-half-year-old Doha Round of multilateral trade talks that negotiators are now aiming not for an agreement but for... National Journal: THE DOHA ROUND'S EMPTY FRAMEWORK@ HighBeam Research http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:95710770&refid=holomed_1   (174 words)      EU Abandons Single Undertaking, Jeopardizing Doha Round The U.S. also has called for a comprehensive, sectoral negotiation to address inequities and unfair trading practices that exist throughout the fiber, textile and apparel complex following conclusion of the Doha round. "The European Union's decision to change its policy mid-stream in this round of WTO negotiations is unproductive and will upend current agriculture negotiations. The U.S. cotton industry, working cooperatively with USDA and US AID, has initiated several development programs designed to assist African farmers in achieving these results. http://www.cotton.org/news/releases/2005/euresponse.cfm   (640 words)      ipedia.com: 2001 Article November 13 - Doha Round: The World Trade Organization ends a four-day ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar. November - The Doha Declaration relaxes the grip of international intellectual property law by a bit. October 15 - NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io. http://www.ipedia.com/2001.html   (2508 words)

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