G4 setback requires new route to WTO deal

(Reuters) - Trade negotiators were forced to look for a new path on Friday to reach an elusive world trade deal after a meeting between four major trading partners ended in failure.

The collapse of talks between the United States, the European Union, India and Brazil on Thursday at an historic German palace in Potsdam was the latest of several crises in the Doha round of world trade talks, which began in November 2001.


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Beggar-thy-Neighbor Protectionism May Loom After Doha Talks, Accord or Not

(Bloomberg) -- Deal or no deal, the latest round of
global trade talks may be the last of its kind.

Officials from the U.S., the European Union, India and
Brazil meet this week to try to advance the faltering Doha round
of negotiations. The talks are part of a six-decade push to
liberalize trade that is yielding diminishing returns as
technology and an increasingly integrated global economy render
it less relevant.


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