WTO DOHA DEVELOPMENT ROUND HONG KONG SUMMIT – FISH
January 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DIPLOMATS at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) headquarters in Geneva are working to a tight April 30 deadline on agreeing detailed goals to liberalise trade in 'industrial' goods, which currently include fish products, despite calls for them to be considered with other foodstuffs in the WTO's parallel agricultural talks. The date was agreed at the WTO's Hong Kong summit in December, which has received moderate praise for preventing the collapse of the organisation's Doha Development Round. Its communiqué said an overall agreement (called ...
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