GENERAL WTO ROUND
March 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE GLOBAL trade in industrial goods could receive the same boost as is planned by the ongoing World Trade Organisation rounds in services and agriculture, if developed countries succeed in launching a new general round at the planned WTO ministerial conference, in Qatar, in November 9-13.Diplomats in Geneva are currently engaging in a series of meetings to pave the way for a new general round. They want to avoid a repeat of the disastrous trade summit of 1999, staged in Seattle, where developing countries successfully opposed the launch of a new ...
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