WTO chairmen propose compromises to save Doha round

(Reuters) - Mediators of the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) troubled farming and industrial goods talks on Tuesday proposed compromise texts meant to save the Doha free trade accord.

Don Stephenson, Canada's ambassador to the WTO and mediator of the industrial goods talks, said countries needed to "search for balance" between their competing interests in the nearly six-year-old negotiations to secure an agreement.


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Africa must seal new trade deals with EU - Michel

(Reuters) - African countries must agree new trade deals with Europe by the end of the year or risk losing valuable commerce, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Louis Michel said on Friday.

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) outlawed the European Union's preferential trade terms for nearly 80 of its African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) former colonies in 2001, but granted a waiver until the end of 2007.


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What happens to world trade post-Doha, experts ask

(Reuters) - Experts are charting a new course for the 12-year-old World Trade Organization as its mandate evolves from simple duty cuts to managing commerce across a fluid global economy.

"The WTO has been so successful over the years that we now expect it to deliver the same success in a far more complex situation," Pierre Pettigrew, a former Canadian trade minister, said on Thursday.


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