The focus would be on industrial goods, agricultural products and service industries, notably banking and insurance. The full concurrence of the 142 trade ministers who will attend the next WTO plenary session in Qatar in November would be needed to before such a initiative could be adopted.
The last such session was the Uruguay round which concluded in 1993.
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