The World Trade Organization (WTO) may well be condemned to limp into the future with a role far less influential than was once enjoyed by GATT, writes former senior trade negotiator Colin Teese.Negotiators at the World Trade Organization (WTO) have failed to reach agreement on a new trade liberalisation package. This outcome, however, should come as no surprise to News Weekly readers.The negotiations, called the Doha Round (named after the capital of Qatar, a small Arab emirate in the Persian G…
