WTO Ambassadors Have Yet Take Up Doha Question, Export Competition

Negotiations at the World Trade Organization on an export competition agreement and whether the Doha round should be reaffirmed in a ministerial declaration have yet to be taken up directly by WTO ambassadors, despite less than two weeks remaining before the Dec. 15-18 ministerial conference in Nairobi, Kenya. Discussions on export competition are still taking place at the technical level in the negotiating group on agriculture, with a range of proposals on the table and no consolidated text. By contrast,...