WTO DOHA DEVELOPMENT ROUND HONG KONG SUMMIT
January 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DIPLOMATS at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) headquarters in Geneva are working to a tight deadline on agreeing detailed goals to liberalise trade in industrial goods, including clothing and textile products following the WTO's Hong Kong summit in December. Its communiqué said an overall agreement (called modalities in WTO jargon) on the industrial goods section of its Doha Development Round should be struck by April 30. Such a deal would specify how particular tariff bands (by value) should be reduced in all WTO member countries. It would ...
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