The Doha Development Agenda: The WTO Framework Agreement

Fergusson, Ian F. ; Hanrahan, Charles E.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Trade;    Tariff;    Export subsidies;    Agriculture in foreign trade;    Free trade;   

RP-ID  :  RL32645
RP-ID  :  RL32645 2005-02-10

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

On July 31, 2004, the 147 members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) reached a Framework Agreement for conducting future Doha Round trade negotiations. The Framework Agreement is the latest step in the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) round of trade negotiations at the WTO, which was launched at the 4th Ministerial of the WTO at Doha, Qatar in November 2001. This report provides analysis of the framework agreement and its significant results (agriculture, industrial market access, services, and trade facilitation) in the context of U.S. objectives.