Agreement on new trade round

摘要

Following six exhausting days of heated argument in Doha, Qatar, on 14 November 2001 the 142 members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreed to launch a three-year programme of trade liberalisation negotiations, to be named the Doha DevelopmentRound. The agenda for the new Round includes talks on clarifying the relationship between trade rules and environment treaties, on phasing out agricultural subsidies, on discussing the possibility of global rules on investment and competition, and on improving the capacity of poor countries to benefit more from the multilateral trading system.