NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS – On December 7, representatives from the World Trade Organization’s 159 member countries reached agreement on the first multilateral trade deal in the WTO’s 19-year history. Although the Trade Facilitation Agreement – dubbed the “Bali package,” after the Indonesian island where the meeting took place – did not address the most pressing North-South trade issues, it remains an important economic and political milestone.
发自马萨诸塞州牛顿市——12月7日，来自世界贸易组织159个成员国的代表达成了WTO 成立19年以来的第一个多边贸易协议。虽然贸易促进协议——因会议在印尼岛举行而被命名为“巴厘岛一揽子计划”——并未解决最紧迫的南北半球贸易不均衡贸易问题，但它仍然是一个重要的经济和政治里程碑。