- 27 March 2013: Members start negotiating proposal on poor countries’ food stockholding
> News item with audio
- 25 February 2013: Lamy urges members to accelerate work on Bali package
> Report by the Chairman of the Trade Negotiations Committee
 Audio: Statement by Pascal Lamy
> Summary of the General Council meeting
> Proposed agenda
- 15 February 2013: Farm trade talks to examine information on stockholding, mid-February to early March
> News item with audio
The Doha Round in brief back to top
How the negotiations are organized back to top
The negotiations take place in the Trade Negotiations Committee and specific negotiating groups. Other work under the work programme takes place in WTO councils and committees.
Virtually every item of the negotiation is part of a whole and indivisible package and cannot be agreed separately. This is known as the “single undertaking”: “Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed”.
The Doha Ministerial Declaration back to top
Most of the subjects treated involve negotiations; other work includes actions under “implementation”, analysis and monitoring.
The implementation decision back to top
Around 100 implementation issues were raised in the lead-up to the Doha Ministerial Conference. The implementation decision, combined with paragraph 12 of the main Doha Declaration, provides a two-track solution. More than 40 items under 12 headings were settled at or before the Doha conference, for immediate delivery; and the vast majority of the remaining items are immediately the subject of negotiations:
- Text
- Explanation of the implementation decision
- Background on how the decision was reached
- Subjects treated
Development: the heart of the Doha Development Agenda back to top
When they launched the Doha Round, ministers placed development at its centre. “We seek to place developing countries’ needs and interests at the heart of the Work Programme adopted in this Declaration,” they said. “… We shall continue to make positive efforts designed to ensure that developing countries, and especially the least-developed among them, secure a share in the growth of world trade commensurate with the needs of their economic development. In this context, enhanced market access, balanced rules, and well targeted, sustainably financed technical assistance and capacity-building programmes have important roles to play.”
- Development Aspects of the Doha Round: A Secretariat round-up of issues of interest to developing countries and the potential gains in all areas of the round > Search for document (updated periodically)
- Speech by Pascal Lamy on launch of Secretariat note
- More on development in the WTO
- More on special treatment for developing countries (“special and differential treatment” or S&D)
- Aid for Trade
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