WTO SUMMIT HONG KONG – INDUSTRIAL GOODS SERVICES LIBERALISATION DOHA DEVELOPMENT ROUND
January 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AUTO manufacturing firms will be closely monitoring next week's World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong for signs that the WTO's long-running Doha Development Round talks are about to crack open national automobile markets. Key auto industry countries - the US, the European Union, Canada, Japan, South Korea, India and Brazil - have been making steady progress this year in identifying non-tariff barriers to trade they would like to remove, such as burdensome customs procedures, technical engineering rules and licences. And this could ...
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