ABSTRACT
Over five years have passed since the launching of a new Round of trade negotiations when WTO members met in Doha in 2001. The agreement was hailed by its supporters as putting the WTO back on track after the collapse of the ministerial meeting in Seattle in 1999 amid mutual recriminations and clouds of tear gas in the street. The Round was to be a development one which would reflect the interests of the majority of WTO members and go some way to addressing the growing debate over the very legitimacy of the WTO itself and the multilateral process of trade rule-making.
