We need to provide access to the decision-making process in the WTO, access to policy advice, access to capacity building, and access to our markets. There is no point encouraging these countries to embrace trade and openness, and then slamming the door firmly shut. Above all a new round is an opportunity to encourage developing countries themselves to continue using openness and trade as tools for their economic growth. This means engaging confidently and readily in further liberalization of their economies, correcting structural weaknesses and market distortions, and locking in reforms under WTO rules. The next century should be driven by development that raises living standards everywhere and produces more customers and jobs.
China alone is already the world's third largest economy, the fifth largest trader.
China needs an open trading system to realize its vast potential. Under the right conditions, enlargement will strengthen the multilateral system, not dilute it. Fourth building bridges in global policy-making. Each one rightly demands response. The WTO cannot provide all the answers to these questions.