Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/174753 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
ECIPE Policy Brief No. 4/2009
Publisher: 
European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), Brussels
Abstract: 
This Policy Brief concerns the troubled state of the Doha Round. The classical model for a multilateral trade negotiation (as developed from the GATT years and commonly called a Round) would include trade liberalisation through tariff reductions and elimination of non-tariff barriers, with an expectation of active participation by around 40 countries who would collectively account for 90% of world trade. Many GATT members were thus peripheral to the process. Among other consequences this led to skewed results with much less progress in areas where developing countries had a major interest, but where the main players had a defensive attitude such as agriculture and textiles.
Document Type: 
Research Report

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