China's Top Trade Official: Don't Abandon the Doha Round

After seven years of ups and downs, the WTO's Doha Development Agenda negotiations registered another failure in July (BusinessWeek.com, 7/30/08). The talks collapsed when the agreement on modalities of both agriculture and nonagriculture market access (NAMA), critical to the progress of the whole round, was almost within reach. This is tragic. Yet multilateral trade negotiations have never sailed smoothly before, so one more setback should not mean the end of the Doha Round.

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