Inside Trade

October 11, 2025

Doha Round - Latest News Statements

WTO Members Brainstorm On Future Agenda, But Consensus Is Elusive

World Trade Organization members are holding informal talks on the body's negotiating agenda for 2016 in various small group and bilateral meetings, but a small contingent of developing countries including India is resisting proposals to bring in new issues that were not a part of the Doha round, according to Geneva sources. In a WTO ambassadors' meeting on Wednesday (Feb. 10), the future of the WTO's agenda was discussed by the organization's full membership for the first time since the...

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