As discussion continues in the hope of launching a new round of negotiations at the next ministerial meeting at Doha in Qatar in November 2001, and given the increasing attention paid by many environmentalists to the debate over the apparent conflict in trade and environment policy, it is clear that trade and environment issues will loom large at the meeting in Doha. How governments choose to d...

Agriculture has a key role to play in reducing poverty and hunger in many developing countries. About 75% of the world's poor live in rural areas and most are dependent on agriculture and related activities in the rural economy. For this reason the benefits for developing countries’ farmers have been shown to be substantial if OECD member countries reformed their agricultural policies. The issu...

• The faltering Doha Round has led to a renewed focus on large regional trade agreements. There are two super-RTAs in the making in the Asia-Pacific and one in the Atlantic, all with rather ambitious negotiation targets, and presented as alternate means to reset global trade rules and take the multilateral trade liberalisation agenda forward. • So what does this development mean for large emerg...

1 The fifth WTO ministerial conference held at Cancun in mid-September 2003 was intended to define more precisely the negotiating parameters for the Doha Development Agenda, the round of negotiations launched at the fourth WTO ministerial conference held in Doha in November 2001. The meeting was terminated following an inability to reach consensus on whether to start negotiations on the so-call...

In the context of the Doha Development Round, the vast majority of computable general equilibrium studies examine agricultural trade led gains to developing countries, whilst European Union based studies are scarce and only one assessment exists in the case of Spain. This study also focuses on Spain, whilst developing the literature in two ways. Firstly, a more realistic representation of the a...

3. In the fifty years preceding the Doha ministerial conference, there have been eight rounds of negotiations. After the establishment of the GATT in 1948, there were six rounds of tariff-cutting negotiations. This was followed by the first successful attack on non-tariff barriers in the Tokyo Round negotiations, launched in 1973, and in 1993, by the completion of the Uruguay Round, launched in...

Trade reformers have attempted to revamp antidumping (AD) procedures for many years, most recently in the Uruguay Round. Antidumping once again is on the multilateral trade reform agenda in the Doha Round. Evidence presented in this paper suggests that substantial, and perhaps even modest, AD reform is unlikely to occur. The principal reasons are two-fold. First, the growing list of countries t...

Developing countries have both offensive and defensive interests in the Doha Round of WTO trade negotiations. This paper discusses the extent to which these interests have been addressed in the July 2004 Framework Agreement and in the subsequent negotiations. Many of the key demands of developing countries appear to have been accepted in principle in the Agreement, but the lack of specific deta...