The legal status of the Doha declarations

Journal of International Economic Law

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 207-211

  Charnovitz, Steve ^a  

^a WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE AND DORR LLP   (United States)

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EID: 0036281413     PISSN: 13693034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jiel/5.1.207     Document Type: Review

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1. WT/MIN(01)/DEC/2.
2. H. Cooper & G. Winestock, 'Poor Nations Win Gains in Global Trade Deal, as U.S. Compromises', Wall Street Journal (15 November 2001) A1.
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4. 'USTR Zoellick Says World Has Chosen Path of Hope, Openness, Development and Growth', USTR Press Release 01-100 (14 November 2001), available at http://www.ustr.gov, visited 28 November 2001.
5. WT/MIN(01)/DEC/1.
6. WT/MIN(01)/DEC/17.
7. A Historic Moment: 'May I take it that this is agreeable?' Gavel, applause) congratulations ..., available at http://www-heva.wto-ministerial.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/min01_e/ min01_chair speaking_e.htm, visited 28 November 2001.
8. Ministerial Declaration, para 11 (emphasis added).
9. Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, para 4.
10. Idem para 7. This paragraph instructs the Council for TRIPS to take the necessary action to give effect to this pursuant to Article 66.1 of the TRIPS Agreement. Yet Article 66.1 seems to contemplate according extensions on a case-by-case basis. So the Declaration may be granting new authority to the Council for TRIPS.
11. Ministerial Declaration, para 6.
12. Idem para 7.
13. Idem para 34.
14. See Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes, Article 3.2.
15. Ministerial Declaration, para 6.
16. Report of the Appellate Body, United States - Import Prohibitions of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products, WT/DS58/AB/R, circulated on 12 October 1998, para 168.