From the Uruguay Round to the Doha Round and its developments until recent days

the New Challenges for Brazil in the multilateral WTO Negotiations

Abstract

The paper analyses the main world scenarios of the multilateral negotiations during the Uruguay and   the Doha Rounds, the latter under the World Trade Organization – WTO, which began in 2001 and is not yet concluded. The research has two focuses: make an evaluation of the conquests reached by the Uruguay Round, which decisions started to work in 1995 and resulted in the deepest reform of the world trade system, since the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs, in the year 1947; and to present the developments of the Doha Round, which was installed because of the dissatisfaction of a great number of countries with the noncompliance of the principal conquests of the Uruguay Round. The study shows that the big increase in the number of country-members in the Organization, the emergency of new protagonists, the intransigent defense from the rich countries of their agriculture, and the WTO format of decisions by consensus, turned almost impossible the conclusion of the Doha Round until the present days.