Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The future of the Doha Round
- PART ONE Development policy of the WTO
- PART TWO Trade policy (including competition) and trade facilitation
- 6a Trade policy objectives in the Doha Round – A European Union perspective
- 6b The final phase of the Doha Round
- 7 Further liberalisation of trade in chemicals – can the DDA deliver? A summary of the chemical industry's position on the Doha Development Agenda
- 8 Trade facilitation within the Doha Round: A critical review of recent efforts of the WTO and other international organizations (1996–2006)
- 9 ICN accompanied convergence, instead of WTO imposed harmonization, of competition laws
- 10 Legal principle of integration in the Doha Round: Embedding a social order in the global market
- PART THREE Reform of the dispute settlement system
- PART FOUR Social rights, health, and environment
- PART FIVE Conclusions
- Index
7 - Further liberalisation of trade in chemicals – can the DDA deliver? A summary of the chemical industry's position on the Doha Development Agenda
from PART TWO - Trade policy (including competition) and trade facilitation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The future of the Doha Round
- PART ONE Development policy of the WTO
- PART TWO Trade policy (including competition) and trade facilitation
- 6a Trade policy objectives in the Doha Round – A European Union perspective
- 6b The final phase of the Doha Round
- 7 Further liberalisation of trade in chemicals – can the DDA deliver? A summary of the chemical industry's position on the Doha Development Agenda
- 8 Trade facilitation within the Doha Round: A critical review of recent efforts of the WTO and other international organizations (1996–2006)
- 9 ICN accompanied convergence, instead of WTO imposed harmonization, of competition laws
- 10 Legal principle of integration in the Doha Round: Embedding a social order in the global market
- PART THREE Reform of the dispute settlement system
- PART FOUR Social rights, health, and environment
- PART FIVE Conclusions
- Index
Summary
Introduction
In December 2005, after four years of difficult and tedious negotiations, the WTO's Sixth Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong decided upon a bare minimum: the negotiations should continue and be concluded by the end of 2006. The ministers avoided complete failure at the conference, but could not make significant progress on the three main negotiating items, namely agriculture, industrial tariffs and services. This chapter will discuss the positions of the European chemical industry on the WTO DDA negotiations and on specific trade policy issues related to these negotiations. It seriously questions whether the Doha Development Agenda can produce meaningful liberalisation results for a global industry, such as the chemical industry.
Governments and the press have criticised business for not being active and outspoken enough on the DDA negotiations. It is true that given the narrow mandate of the DDA negotiations the business community is not as active with respect to the DDA as it was with respect to the Uruguay Round. Yet European, Japanese and American business organisations have all adopted strong positions on the negotiations and have made them public. Substantive business positions do exist – the real problem, however, lies in whether governments and the press are interested in these positions.
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- Agreeing and Implementing the Doha Round of the WTO , pp. 160 - 196Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008