{"id":33245,"date":"2018-10-30T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33245"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:30:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:00:53","slug":"wto-meet-ends-without-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wto-meet-ends-without-consensus\/","title":{"rendered":"WTO meet ends without consensus:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/wto-meet-ends-without-consensus\/article21665445.ece\">WTO meet ends without consensus:<\/a><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Member countries fail to reach agreement on food security right, centrality of development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unable to reach an agreement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The December 10-13 meeting of the World Trade Organisation\u2019s highest decision-making body in this \u2018city of fair winds\u2019 ended becalmed with the WTO\u2019s 164 members unable to reach a consensus on substantive issues such as the food security right of developing countries and the centrality of development in multilateral trade negotiations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But a Deal by 2019 on fishery subsidies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, the Ministerial Conference managed to salvage a commitment from member nations to secure a deal by 2019 on banning certain forms of fisheries\u2019 subsidies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>US blocked demands<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During hectic parleys, the U.S. blocked the demands of more than a 100 developing nations, including India and China, to implement their food security programmes without onerous conditions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Every country important for a decision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since all major decisions in the WTO need to be taken by \u2018the membership as a whole\u2019, even a single country can end up being the deal-breaker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>India held its ground<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India, for its part, thwarted attempts by several countries, both developed and developing, to initiate binding discussions on what they called the 21st century challenges to trade \u2014 including e-commerce, investment facilitation and proposed norms for small firms<\/p>\n<p><strong>How?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This it did by refusing to budge from its position that members should first resolve outstanding issues (such as food sovereignty) of the ongoing Doha Round negotiations that began in 2001 with a \u2018development agenda\u2019 (for improving the trading prospects of developing nations), before considering \u2018new issues\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t give up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question from\u00a0<em>The Hindu<\/em>\u00a0on how the WTO would handle this failure, especially considering that some member nations had failed to comply with certain decisions that were part of previous Ministerial Declarations, Mr. Azev\u00eado said: \u201cIt is disappointing that in some areas, particularly where we had a [Ministerial] mandate as you pointed out, we could not get that outcome. But we don\u2019t give up. We just continue. This is the nature of the multilateral system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>No MC declaration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The meeting ended without a Ministerial Declaration as members could not agree on the centrality of development, which underlies the Doha Round, as well as special and differential treatment for all developing countries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WTO meet ends without consensus:\u00a0 Context Member countries fail to reach agreement on food security right, centrality of development. Unable to reach an agreement The December 10-13 meeting of the World Trade Organisation\u2019s highest decision-making body in this \u2018city of fair winds\u2019 ended becalmed with the WTO\u2019s 164 members unable to reach a consensus on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wto-meet-ends-without-consensus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WTO meet ends without consensus:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704688385},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}