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Trade negotiations make strange bedfellows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2008

MATEO DIEGO-FERNÁNDEZ
MATEO DIEGO-FERNÁNDEZ*
Affiliation:
Mexican Competition Commission
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*Correspondence to: Email: mdfernan@mexico-wto.org
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Abstract

Since its creation, the GATT/WTO has experienced a vast number of changes, from being a small agreement with 23 contracting parties to becoming an international organization with 151 Members; from negotiations on a limited number of tariff reductions and general rules to embracing wider and more sensitive areas, such as agriculture, services, intellectual property and environment; and from a main-trading-powers' leadership to a wider participation and more balanced reflection of interests from both developed and developing countries alike. This article attempts to demonstrate the pragmatism of coalitions, as well as both the costs and benefits of creating or joining them in the current framework of negotiations in the Doha Round.

Type
From the Trenches
Information
World Trade Review , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 423 - 453
Copyright
Copyright © M.-D. Fernández 2008

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