WTO ROUND
November 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE WORLD Trade Organisation has agreed to launch a new wide-ranging round of talks on liberalising global commerce, negotiations that will include the sale of pharmaceuticals.Ministers at the summit in Doha, Qatar, also set deadlines for the new talks, which must be completed by 2005.They agreed a communiqué on the new round of trade in industrial goods, which said talks would try "to reduce or as appropriate eliminate tariffs, including the reduction or elimination of tariff peaks, high tariffs, and tariff escalation, as well as non-tariff ...
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