ABSTRACT
The website of the World Trade Organization (WTO) contains the following quote under the heading ‘What is the WTO?’:
Participants in a recent radio discussion on the WTO were full of ideas. The WTO should do this, the WTO should do that, they said. One of them finally interjected: ‘Wait a minute. The WTO is a table. People sit round the table and negotiate. What do you expect the table to do?’ 2
