Inability to negotiate effective multilateral safeguard systems

This is evident in relation to issues of environment, disarmament, the international monetary system, the debt crisis, and to the international trading system. In the latter case, one of the major symptoms of the erosion of the GATT system has been the persistent inability to negotiate the improved multilateral safeguard system envisaged in the Tokyo Round declaration of 1979.

1. Lack of international cooperation
2. Lack of ability

1. Unilateral interpretations of multilateral principles
2. Fragmentation of the international trading system

1. Limited observance of multilateral trade agreements

1. Negotiating multilateral safeguard systems
2. Developing multilateral cooperation

1. Overeffective
2. Inability
3. Disability
4. Ability