ARTICLE: "Global trade talks fall apart: Years of wrangling end without reaching an accord," by David J. Lynch, USA Today, 30 July 2008, p. 1B.
Doha will go beyond seven years. Not unprecedented. Uruguay went 8 years (negotiations) and didn't go into effect until 9 years passed. Given the reality that Doha gets into the toughest territory yet, it wouldn't surprise me to see a decade pass.
Key bit:
The issue that scuttled the talks involved a demand by India and China for the right to increase tariffs if food imports surged.
That's global warming talking, long-term: rising demand and a fear about being able to meet it domestically. But the reality is that India's and China's small farmers are doomed. Only a matter of time.
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