2007 Articles

Why the Trade Talks Collapsed

Bhagwati, Jagdish N.; Panagariya, Arvind

The breakdown of the Doha Round in Potsdam, Germany, had less to do with India and Brazil's protectionism than with the U.S.'s paralyzing inability to respond to long-standing, world-wide demands for the reduction of its (and the EU's) agricultural subsidies.