It has been a tough decade for the World Trade Organisation. Six years ago the so-called Doha round of multilateral talks collapsed. An attempt to rescue a largely symbolic fragment from the rubble failed: this year, a deal on “trade facilitation” – streamlining border bureaucracy – was blocked by India and a few allies to make a point on an unrelated issue.
過去10年對世貿組織(WTO)來說是艱難的。6年前,所謂的多哈回合多邊貿易談判談崩了。人們試圖從崩塌後的廢墟中挽救出一塊在很大程度上只具象徵意義的碎片——貿易便利化協議,但這項努力也失敗了:今年,印度及其少數盟友爲了在一個不相干的問題上表明立場,封殺了這項能簡化國家間官僚程式的協議。
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