Doha not dead yet

Resource News International Left for dead back in the summer, the World Trade Organization’s struggling Doha round is slowly being prodded back to life through a series of informal consultations in Geneva. Canadian agriculture groups welcomed the news. Ambassador Crawford Falconer, chair of the WTO’s agricultural committee, has been meeting informally with countries since early

Financial crisis no cause for protectionism, WTO says

The financial crisis should not undermine efforts to open up the global economy, the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said Sept. 24. WTO director-general Pascal Lamy said the lesson from the Great Depression that followed the 1929 Wall Street crash was that protectionism made things worse for economies. “The current hurricane that has