Nairobi meeting faces questions on WTO’s ability to deliver deals

December 14, 2015

Negotiating officials at the 10th ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which begins on Tuesday will be hard-pressed to show that the multilateral body can still deliver deals, amid widely divergent expectations and rising bilateral and plurilateral deals. The four-day meeting, however, will begin without any substantial item on the agenda or negotiating text, which would make it all the more difficult to arrive at a deal that would satisfy both sides.

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Topics: NAIROBI MINISTERIAL DEVELOPED COUNTRIES LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES (LDCS)

Authors: LIVE MINT


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