INTERNATIONAL: Institutional shortcomings mar WTO

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  • Mercantilism and brinkmanship
  • Wider membership, differing priorities
  • Consensus rule
  • Negotiating overload
  • Single undertaking
  • Procedural difficulties
  • Ministerial meetings
  • Role of chairmen
  • Director-General and Secretariat
  • Future options
  • Fewer negotiating subjects
  • Consensus and the single undertaking

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