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Unit Seven Doha Round Pre-reading Questions How much do you know about the Dora Round? What are the differences between the Uruguay Round and the Dora Round? What do you know about the Cancun WTO meeting? Who are low-income countries and high-income countries? Do you know what new issues does the Dora Round cover? Background of Doha Meeting Singapore issues: investment, competition, government procurement and trade facilitation Seattle Talk Issues discussed at Doha market access and the tariffs on non-agricultural products, agriculture, services trade, the TRIPS agreement, the Singapore issues, implementation issues and special and different treatment for low-income countries The Cancun WTO meeting Low-income countries were able to use their cohesiveness and their growing trade strength to mount a major challenge to the EU and US. High-income countries could no longer take low-income countries for granted as they had ever since the Kennedy Round in the 1960s. New issues in the Doha Round The Singapore issues Investment Competition Government procurement Trade facilitation Labour and environment clauses and electronic commerce Singapore issues Although three of the four Singapore issues seem to have dropped out of the Doha Round, the framework agreement for the round agreed to in July 2004 did not specifically delete the issues, leaving the (small) possibility they could be revisited in the future. Investment an attempt by high-income countries to protect the (perceived) rights of foreign investors generally opposed by most low-income countries Competition closely linked to the investment issue The aim of the competition issue is to give foreign companies the same rights as local companies Most low-income countries think WTO competition policies could be used to wipe out their locally owned industries and are therefore suspicious of them. Government procurement meant to relate to transparency in government procurement (purchasing) Low-income countries fe