Doha Development Round

Basic description: Location: Geneva, Switzerland Established: 1 January 1995 Created by: Uruguay Round negotiations (1986-94)   Membership: 153 countries on 23 July 2008 (117 developing countries) Budget: 194 million Swiss francs for 2010
Secretariat staff: 637
Head: Pascal Lamy (Director-General) Functions: • Administering WTO trade agreements • Forum for trade negotiations • Handling trade disputes • Monitoring national trade policies • Technical assistance and training for developing

SUMMARY The economic crisis, Doha completion, and protectionist pressure As the economic crisis incresting , the worry about the protectionist maybe not to be centred on completion the Doha Round. Aactually, the point things that should be worried is the antidumping, countervailing duty and safeguard protection,misguided public subsides,rising protection in the poorest countries ,and temptaion in th US Congress to violate existing treaty. The centre of the WTO system is to bind the tariff

Alain Salle International business Question 3 : So far, the WTO has struggled to reach agreement on the Doha Agenda and consequently, in the opinion of some commentators, is losing its relevance. Critically assess the arguments for and against this view. Introduction Since 1995, the World trade Organization (WTO) looks after the international business. Its goal is to help producer, exporter and importer to conduct their business. To do that, WTO tries to reduce barriers to free trade.

between participants were important so, to conclude, they settled on his agreement GATT that the head office is in Geneva. The agreement came into force the 1st January 1948.There were nine rounds of multilateral trade negotiations which were held under GATT auspices. The main mission of these different rounds was to find agreements about non tariff barriers. For example, it was the case for the agricultural products. This essay is based on three main sections. The first is the main achievements

| |G20 leaders made a number of commitments on trade in their London Communiqué. This column argues that the anti-protection pledge is more credible than the one agreed in the Washington | |Declaration. The commitment on the Doha Round, by contrast, was pitiful. | |

(Krugman chapitre 8) • • • The World Bank (2004): “Agricultural Policies and Trade”, in Global Economic Prospects, Chapter 3 http://go.worldbank.org/QCUULNC2Y0 Fontagné, L., Guérin, J-L., Jean, S. (2003): “Market Access Liberalization in the Doha Round: Scenarios and Assessment”, CEPII Working Paper. http://www.cepii.fr/anglaisgraph/workpap/pdf/2003/wp03-12.pdf Robert C. Feenstra (1992): “How Costly is Protectionism?”, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 159-178. Thème

Services council, and working parties and Intellectual Property Council (TRIPS) report to the General Council. 4 & 5. Numerous specialized committees, working groups deal with the individual agreements and other areas such as the environment, development, membership applications and regional trade agreements. Secretariat The WTO secretariat, based in Geneva, has around 625 staff and is headed by a director general, the annual budget 122 billion of Euro. . It does not have branch offices outside

efforts unilatéraux Stiglitz, prix Nobel d’économie en 2001, fut avant tout bras droit de Bill Clinton pendant son mandat. Il était présent lors du « Doha round », qui devait se nommer « development round ». la raison est simple, l’objectif était de corriger les échecs de l’Uruguay round, qui avait été figé en matière d’agriculture notamment. Ce nouveau round devait poser les principes d’un nouveau commerce international permettant au Sud de rattraper leur retard. Dans Pour un commerce mondial plus juste

McGill Law Journal ~ Revue de droit de McGill DE GENÈVE À DOHA : GENÈSE ET ÉVOLUTION DU TRAITEMENT SPÉCIAL ET DIFFÉRENCIÉ DES PAYS EN DÉVELOPPEMENT DANS LE DROIT DE L’OMC Charles-Emmanuel Côté* Cet article a pour objectif de documenter la genèse et l’évolution du traitement différencié en droit international économique, avec en filigrane une discussion sur le droit international du développement, afin d’éclaircir les transformations qu’il a pu subir. Cette étude s’impose au vu du redéploiement

16 octobre 2003 Institut Français des Relations Internationales Pour une relance du cycle du développement : refonder le consensus multilatéral après Cancun Par Jean-Marie Paugam chercheur à l’IFRI 2 Résumé Le programme de développement de Doha conjuguait trois demandes divergentes des membres de l’OMC : les pays en développement voulaient rééquilibrer en leur faveur les accords existants ; les Etats-Unis voulaient un nouveau cycle de libéralisation ; l’Europe le voulait aussi mais en