Publication - 2 December, 2005
The 6th WTO Ministerial Conference is set to take place in Hong Kong, China from the 13th to 18th of December 2005. After the collapse of the last Ministerial meeting in Cancun in 2003, governments aim to ensure at Hong Kong, that the “Doha Round” can be completed by the end of 2006. Governments will go out of their way to avoid a collapse of the negotiations as happened in Cancun. But if governments fail to agree a substantial deal in Hong Kong, their global trade liberalization agenda will be in serious trouble.