ON August 1, 2004 the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreed, after a few days of extended meeting, on a frame of negotiation on multilateral trade known as the Doha Round, which should be completed by the end of 2005. Because of the failure of the WTO to reach an agreement in Doha in 2001 and at a ministerial meeting in Cancun in September 2003, the frame of negotiation was agreed on only three ye