Three panels of witnesses testified about the state of agricultural negotiations in multi-year global trade talks named the “Doha Development Round” for Doha, Qatar, where the current series was launched in 2001.

Among the topics they addressed were initiatives to increase trade and strengthen economies through open markets in developing countries, levels of U.S. commodities exports to various regions and countries, competing development proposals by European Union countries, existing and threatened trade barriers, and the next steps to be negotiated in a ministerial conference in Hong Kong. 

Panel 2 (Butler and others) was interrupted by other programming, is missing 24 minutes, and its last 5 minutes are in 189717-3.