The Doha trade round: What hope for Hong Kong?
The Doha round of trade talks, launched in the Qatar capital in 2001, is in trouble. The members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have little time left to meet their ambition of helping developing countries trade their way out of poverty. George Bush's fast-track negotiating authority – which limits the ability of America's Congress to unravel any trade agreement – runs out in July 2007.