1. Cotton and Banana Issues.
- Author
-
Wang Lijun and Shijian, Zhou
- Subjects
- *
INTERNATIONAL economic relations , *INTERNATIONAL trade , *COMMERCIAL treaties , *FREE trade , *CONFERENCES & conventions , *AGRICULTURE - Abstract
The article reports that trade ministers from major World Trade Organization (WTO) member states meeting in Geneva, Switzerland on July 29, 2008 failed to reach agreements on key issues. The Doha Round is said to fail because of the agricultural special safeguard mechanism (SSM). It offers information on a compromise proposal by WTO Director General Pascal Lamy. The "Doha Development Agenda" calls for balanced solutions to issues confronting developing members based on trade liberalization.
- Published
- 2008