From Doha to Do'ah

• Nil progress at Geneva in July 2006

WTO evolves from General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

• reduce tariffs and non-tariff barriers
• GATT members become WTO members
• Developing countries dependent on trade with industrialized countries
• Some DCs have access to Generalized System of Preferences 
  • LDC have greater access

"Doha round" launched in Doha, Qatar in Nov. 2001

• "trade, not aid"
• Doha Development Agenda
  • Agriculture
  • NAMA (any product but food)
  • Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property rightS (TRIPS)
    • Software and media piracy
      • US MPAA estimates $280 million loss in China for 2004
    • medical patents
    • GMO & Health, Biodiversity, 'Traditional Knowledge'
      • seed sharing

Agriculture and Developing Countries

• agriculture exempt until completion of "Uruguay round" in 1994
  • see Clapp on "boxes" or  for gory details in US see Prof. Hart's page
• DC share of world trade are low but growing
• exports to US & EU low