What is Doha Development Agenda 10

The Doha Round** negotiations, also known as the Doha Development Agenda, are a new round of multilateral negotiations initiated by the World Organization at the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Organization held in Doha, the capital of Qatar, in November 2001. The agenda was originally scheduled to conclude negotiations in full by 1 January 2005, but no agreement was reached by the end of 2005 and was formally suspended on 22 July 2006 with the approval of the General Council of the World ** Organization.

Areas of negotiation. The Doha Round** negotiations consist of eight areas of negotiation, including:

1.Agriculture. 2.Market access for non-agricultural products.

3.Serve. 4.Intellectual property.

5.Rules. 6.Dispute Resolution.

7.** with the environment.

8.** and development.

Process: At the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the World Organization, held in Cancún, Mexico, in September 2003, member States were unable to reach consensus on agriculture, resulting in an impasse in the Doha Round negotiations.

On August 3, 2004, the World Organization of Prime Ministers reached the Doha Round Framework Agreement, which was a step towards a comprehensive agreement. The agreement consists of five components: agricultural products**, non-agricultural market access, development, services** and facilitation.

The agreement clearly stipulates that the United States and the European Union will gradually eliminate export subsidies for agricultural products and reduce import tariffs in response to the demands of developing countries.

At the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the World Organization, which opened on 13 December 2005, countries looked forward to narrowing their differences on the Doha Round** negotiations and hoped that the entire round could be concluded in 2006.

On 27 July 2006, the General Council of the World Organization formally approved the suspension of the Doha Round.

WTO "Doha Round" negotiations.

The 147 members of the WTO reached a framework agreement on the main topics of the "Doha Round" on the 1st. The framework agreement covers the areas of agriculture, non-agricultural market access, services, facilitation and development.

In November 2001, the Fourth WTO Ministerial Conference, held in Doha, the capital of Qatar, launched a new round of multilateral negotiations. The newly launched multilateral** negotiations are also known as the "Doha Development Agenda", or simply the "Doha Round". Eight areas of negotiation were identified in the round, namely agriculture, non-agricultural market access, services, intellectual property rights, rules, dispute settlement, and environment, and development issues.

The Doha Round is scheduled to conclude by 1 January 2005. However, at the WTO Ministerial Conference held in Cancún, Mexico, last September, the Doha Round negotiations reached an impasse because members did not reach an agreement on agriculture and other issues. In March this year, representatives of WTO members held urgent consultations on agriculture in Geneva, and although there was agreement to move the negotiations forward with a view to reaching a framework agreement by mid-year, no substantive progress was made.

After the WTO released the draft framework agreement for the "Doha Round" on July 16, representatives of various parties finally reached a framework agreement in Geneva after two weeks of intensive consultations and 40 hours of continuous day and night negotiations on 30 July. In the framework agreement on agriculture, which is at the heart of the negotiations, developed members committed themselves to eventually eliminating export subsidies, slashing domestic support and substantially improving market access. After the framework agreement is reached, WTO members will continue to negotiate on the modalities and specific content of the negotiations on this basis, with a view to finalizing the Doha Round.

The issue of agriculture was one of the most central elements of the Doha Round and was key to addressing other issues. On this issue, there are differences between developed and developing members, between developed members, between old members and between new members, mainly in the areas of tariff reduction and export subsidies for agricultural products. The United States is a country with strong competitiveness in agricultural products, and has vigorously promoted the liberalization of agricultural products, advocating a substantial reduction in domestic support, and even the elimination of export subsidies, reducing tariffs, and narrowing tariff differences among members.

However, due to the lack of comparative advantages in agriculture, members such as the European Union, Switzerland, Norway, Japan, and South Korea have tried to maintain a high degree of protection and support for agriculture as much as possible, and advocated the use of the Uruguayan model to reduce tariffs and domestic support, give members greater flexibility, and strictly regulate and reduce export credits. Most developing members, on the other hand, emphasized the serious imbalances in export competition and the development needs of developing members, and advocated the linkage between tariff concessions and export subsidy reductions, and the granting of effective special and differential treatment policies to developing members. Eastern Europe and the new members, on the other hand, highlighted the particular difficulties they faced and the broad commitments made during the accession negotiations, and called for special treatment policies for members with economies in transition and new members.

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Doha is the capital of Qatar, a country in the Middle East.

There was a WTO meeting, so it was called the Doha Conference.