7. Since the WTO and APEC are finding resistance among developing and underdeveloped countries, the US and EU, and other imperialist powers are slowly shifting their schemes into forging bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, also called Free Trade Agreements or FTAs, with several Third World countries to recover the bid for economic domination.
7. Dahil nababalaho ang WTO at APEC bilang proyekto ng US/EU sa pagdomina sa kalakalan sa daigdig, ang mga patakaran ng huli ay unti-unting bumabaling sa pagbubuo ng bilateral at multilateral trade agreements o tinatawag na Free Trade Agreements (FTAs).