The Doha Development Agenda : What's on the Table?
The outlines of a potential agreement, emerging after seven years of negotiations, imply that Doha offers three key benefits: reduced uncertainty of market access in goods and services; improved market access in agriculture and manufacturing; and t...
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Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/07/9690589/doha-development-agenda-whats-table http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6838 |
Summary: | The outlines of a potential agreement,
emerging after seven years of negotiations, imply that Doha
offers three key benefits: reduced uncertainty of market
access in goods and services; improved market access in
agriculture and manufacturing; and the mobilization of
resources to deal with the trade problems of least developed
countries. WTO Members have offered to make large reductions
in legally bound levels of protection in goods and services.
The reductions in currently applied levels of protection are
smaller. For the least developed countries, the proposed
"duty free and quota free" access will only add
significantly to their access under existing preferential
access arrangements if industrial and developing country
members include vital tariff lines. The initiatives on trade
facilitation and aid for trade can play a valuable catalytic
role in promoting reform and mobilizing assistance, but
substantial effort is still needed to translate notional
benefits into actual gain. |
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