In July 2004, the Working Group on Interaction between Trade and Competition Policy at WTO was made inactive post decision by General Council at Cancun as the proposal to have a formal multilateral framework to enhance the contribution of competition policy to international trade and development...

States have become schizophrenic, accepting obligations one day, undoing them the next, committing themselves to do something and then coming back on their commitments, ratifying treaties which will soon be contradicted by another treaty signed in another international forum. The same States...