WTO HONG KONG SUMMIT THINK PIECE – DOHA DEVELOPMENT ROUND – AGRICULTURE
January 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS trade ministers flew home from four days of gruelling talks at last week's World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong, they could be forgiven for feeling some satisfaction: the end of the Doha Development Round is nigh, probably. Enough political fuel should have been pumped into the negotiations' tank to enable the technical discussions that continue at the WTO headquarters in Geneva to meet a series of deadlines sprinkled throughout 2006. And the bottom line is, the talks may now end next year. If they do not, the organised global ...
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