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After numerous stalled negotiations, many had written off the World Trade Organization (WTO) as the walking dead. Pascal Lamy, its Director General, the former hard hitting lead negotiator for the European Union, was forced to concede that the WTO was at an impasse last December 2011 when the Ministerial was called a “housekeeping exercise.” It is therefore no surprise that there was not a lot of attention for the upcoming 9th Ministerial in Bali, Indonesia. However, as this paper will explain further, this is no time to be complacent. This Bali Ministerial will be different from the previous boring, “housekeeping” Ministerials. It carries with it a real danger and threat of not only the return of the WTO, but an expansion of its reach and the launching of new negotiations into new areas.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 05:59:29 +0000

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