The Doha Round s Premature Obituary

Doha round of multilateral trade negotiations

He stressed the importance of the Doha round for developing countries.

The Doha Round would then be de facto dead.

Time to Get Back to Business on Doha

We hope that the Doha round will come to a conclusion in 2006.

So don t cry for Doha.

It is necessary to make progress on the Doha development round.

The developing world and the international community have much to lose if the Doha round fails.

The Doha Round was constructed on a myth, namely that a negotiating agenda focused on agriculture would constitute a development round.

Given the stakes for the global economy, the Doha Round must be saved.

Others argued that Doha was dead as negotiated.

Within the context of economic development it has also come to prominence in the Doha Development Round.

Let us build on that promise and press ahead with the Doha trade round.

This omission renders the Doha round of trade negotiations unfriendly to development.

The results of the Doha round should adequately reflect the concerns of developing countries.

The greatest hope is thus getting the Doha round back on track.

America and other advanced countries are the real losers from the demise of the Doha Round.

We therefore join the call for an expeditious completion of the World Trade Organization's Doha round of negotiations.

Obama s regrettable retreat from support for the Doha Round is the result of many factors and fallacies.

This is also the moment to inject new energy into the Doha round of global trade talks.

The round of trade negotiations begun in Doha in November 2001 was launched in a different spirit.

My delegation supports the call to complete the Doha round of negotiations by 2006.

We also stress the importance of completing the first round of the Doha multilateral trade negotiations by 2006.

A successful Doha Round will reduce and eliminate tariffs and other barriers on farm and industrial goods.

In the Doha negotiations, another approach is used notifications of NTBs are submitted by interested members according to an agreed inventory to be used in the Doha round.

And, of course, the Doha Round would only reduce these barriers, not eliminate them altogether.

That damage is all the greater when we consider how America s trade subsidies contributed to the demise of the Doha Round.

Outside the US, it is well known that Obama himself pulled the plug on Doha.

In that regard, we stress the importance of concluding the Doha development round, preferably by 2006.

Africa believes that the realization of the agenda under the Doha Round could also bring significant benefits to developing countries.

The representative of Zambia said that LDCs were determined to contribute to the success of the Doha round.

In addition, we urge World Trade Organization members to complete the Doha Round by 2006, if possible.

In that regard, we stress the importance of concluding the Doha development round by 2006, as called for in the Doha Declaration and Doha Plan of Action by the leaders of the South.

The US is largely responsible for the failure of the Doha Round of global trade talks.

But why bother to continue trying? If Doha fails, some say, life will go on.

The long standing Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations seems to have been put on indefinite hold.

The international community must increase its efforts to conclude the Doha Development Round quickly.

Noting with satisfaction the Framework Agreement of 1 August 2004 on the Doha Round of Trade negotiations,

The World Trade Organization, meanwhile, has wasted valuable time on the irrelevant Doha round.

Yet the overall benefits of a successful Doha Round would likely be hundreds of times greater than these costs.

The Doha Round is an opportunity for countries to benefit from others reforms as well as their own.

Regrettably, neither they nor the President have asked that Doha also be put into the bag.

Yet the benefits of a successful Doha round are between 45 and 440 times higher than these costs.

Still, there are few celebrity campaigners calling on politicians to sort out the Doha Round.