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World trade
What Germany is doing: fair rules in international trade
The aim of the German government's development policy is to help establish a stable and socially responsible world economic order. An open, fair trade system that is based on hard and fast rules and that does not discriminate against developing countries is an integral part of the "global partnership" whose establishment is one of the eight goals set out in the Millennium Declaration. To achieve this goal the most important institutions and agreements that regulate the world economy need to be reformed and developed further.
The negotiations in the Doha Round, for example, are one priority area of action of German trade policy. Even though negotiations have been suspended, Germany is still explicitly committed to bringing the Doha Round to a balanced, successful and rapid conclusion. Developing countries' market access is to be improved and competition-distorting customs duties and agricultural subsidies are to be abolished. Overall, the German government is doing all it can to ensure the world trade order is orientated more to poverty reduction.
German development policy believes that a number of changes are needed in order to improve the situation of developing countries:
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