Archive - jun 12, 2003 - Article

Progress on market access has been highlighted as one of the principal negotiating objectives of the United States, along with agricultural reform.

'This Business Advisory Body process could worsen rather than improve the WTO's endemic problems with secrecy, internally or with civil society,' said Navarro.

European Trade Commissioner Mr. Pascal Lamy has insisted that the Singapore issues is part of the single undertaking agreed to at the WTO's Doha Ministerial Conference.