The Hong Kong Ministerial Conference took place on the backdrop and hangover from the failures of some of the previous ministerial Conferences, especially of the Cancun Ministerial in 2003 to conclude the Doha Development Agenda (DDA). After failure of the third Ministerial Conference of the WTO...

This article analyzes making rules in the WTO in special reference to Article 6 of the TRIPS Agreement. The Uruguay Round negotiations were mainly occupied with two competing concepts on parallel imports: prohibiting or permitting parallel imports. The Contracting Parties were extremely adamant...