WTO ROUND TO SLASH – EVEN REMOVE – AUTO IMPORT DUTIES WORLDWIDE

BY KEITH NUTHALL THE WORLD Trade Organisation's (WTO) seven-year-old Doha Development Round is planning the final phase of its negotiations, which may well lead to the elimination of most import duties on cars, trucks, vans and auto parts worldwide. That is the ambition of a special automobile sectoral negotiation within the round's market access for non-agricultural products (or NAMA) talks, which WTO member countries hope to write into a completed Doha agreement later this year. For the European Union (EU), such a deal would affect motor vehicles imported in ...


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