| Abstract | The World Trade Organization (WTO) has now set the first week of November 1996 as the final date for enunciation of its agenda for the Ministerial meeting in Singapore in December 1996. Subsidiary bodies are sending their reports to the Secretariat for inclusion in the drafting process, and among them is the Textile Monitoring Body (TMB), whose report on its work over the first eighteen months was published in mid-October. But the report was relatively innocuous, and confined itself to complaining that the work load imposed on some of its members (especially from delegations whose manpower is stretched, such as Hong Kong and Macao) is difficult to handle. The TMB promised to try to improve its transparency in the futrue. The article discusses the tensions in the WTO over the textile issue. |
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