More Delays in Doha Round Negotiations

May 2, 2008

2 May 2008

 

More Delays in Doha Round Negotiations

 

The following article is excerpted from the 2 May 2008 edition of “World\Trade Interactive”.

 

Press reports indicate that plans for a meeting where trade ministers could work out a preliminary Doha Round agreement are slipping again due to continued disagreement on certain issues in the agriculture and non-agricultural market access talks. The meeting had been targeted for the week of May 19 on the strength of an apparent agreement among a small group of countries on elements of the farm goods negotiations, but there have been difficulties in finalizing that deal and obtaining approval from the broader WTO membership…. As a result, that meeting is increasingly unlikely to be held until later this summer, further jeopardizing the goal of securing a final Doha Round agreement by the end of this year.


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World Economy & Politics
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