ABSTRACT
After the pronounced failure of WTO members to agree upon an agenda for further multilateral trade negotiations at the Seattle ministerial meeting of 1999, a new round of multilateral trade negotiations was initiated at the WTO’s fourth ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar in November 2001. Developing countries were skeptical of participating in such a round, because they claimed that few concrete benefits to them had emerged from the Uruguay Round. Therefore, industrialized nations made a major effort to ensure that concerns of developing countries would be addressed more directly through the Doha Development Agenda. Again, the goal is to establish a single agreement covering several areas.
