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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is confronting an existential crisis, which has considerably weakened its role in global trade governance and accentuated the symptoms of the dysfunctionality of the multilateral trading system. The WTO has not only lost its effectiveness in trade negotiations but could also lose its ability to settle trade disputes. The chapter examines the negotiating positions of the EU and India towards the Doha Round, evaluates proposals made by the EU and India to revitalize the multilateral trading system and highlights the elements of convergence and divergence in their proposals for reform of the WTO.

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Notes

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    This was the first WTO Ministerial Conference to be held in South America. It was attended by about 4,500 participants.

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    Mode 4 (the movement of natural persons) is one of the four ways through which services of skilled persons can be supplied internationally.

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    Amendment to Article 17(2) of the DSU.

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    Amendment to Article 17(2) of the DSU.

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Wróbel, A. (2020). India, the European Union and Global Trade Governance. In: Jain, R. (eds) India and the European Union in a Turbulent World. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3917-6_3

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