The Doha Development Agenda has been described for some time as being on life support. The question now is whether the minimal progress made at Hong Kong will be enough to kick-start the negotiations into life, or whether they will quietly fade away.

The International Law Institute has assembled a group of experts, most of whom were at the Hong Kong meeting, to discuss this critical subject.

Grant Aldonas, former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade
Peter Berz, EC Delegation
Aluiso Campos, Embassy of Brazil
Gary Horlick (moderator), WilmerHale
R. Scott Miller, Proctor & Gamble
Jeffrey Schott, Institute for International Economics
Charles Verrill, President, ILI/Wiley, Rein & Fielding

The following article quoting the ILI Conference appeared on Voice of America News website on January 19, 2006:

Experts Believe Trade Talks Can Be Salvaged
By Barry Wood, Voice of America News, Washington