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The Doha Round in
brief back to top
How the negotiations are organized back to top
The negotiations take place in the Trade Negotiations Committee and specific
negotiating groups. Other work under the work programme takes place in WTO councils and committees.
Virtually every item of the negotiation is part of a whole and indivisible package and cannot be agreed separately. This is known as the “single undertaking”: “Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed”.
> More on how the negotiations are organized
The Doha Ministerial Declaration back to top
Most of the subjects treated involve negotiations; other work includes actions under “implementation”, analysis and monitoring.
The implementation decision back to top
Around 100 implementation issues were raised in the lead-up to the Doha Ministerial Conference. The implementation decision, combined with paragraph 12 of the main Doha Declaration, provides a two-track solution. More than 40 items under 12 headings were settled at or before the Doha conference, for immediate delivery; and the vast majority of the remaining items are immediately the subject of negotiations:
- Text
- Explanation
of the implementation decision
- Background
on how the decision was reached
- Subjects
treated
Development: the heart of the Doha
Development Agenda back to top
When they launched the Doha Round,
ministers placed development at its centre. 揥e seek to place
developing countries?needs and interests at the heart of the Work
Programme adopted in this Declaration,?they said. 搮 We shall
continue to make positive efforts designed to ensure that developing
countries, and especially the least-developed among them, secure a
share in the growth of world trade commensurate with the needs of
their economic development. In this context, enhanced market access,
balanced rules, and well targeted, sustainably financed technical
assistance and capacity-building programmes have important roles to
play.?/p>
- Development Aspects of the Doha Round:
A Secretariat round-up of issues of interest to developing countries
and the potential gains in all areas of the round > Search for document
(updated periodically)
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Speech by Pascal Lamy on launch of Secretariat note
- More on development in the WTO
- More on special treatment for developing
countries (搒pecial and differential treatment?or S&D)
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