U.S., Other WTO Members Dispute Meaning Of Doha Language In Declaration

NAIROBI, Kenya -- The United States and other World Trade Organization members are taking different positions on whether the wording of the ministerial declaration issued here means the Doha round will continue or not. The U.S. prior to the ministerial made clear it would interpret a ministerial declaration that did not explicitly reaffirm the Doha round as effectively ending the Doha architecture. In the U.S. view, the only way to retain the Doha architecture is a consensus statement doing so...