Abstract EN:

There are two categories of State actors in the multilateral commercial system. On first hand, developed countries are at the origin of the most part of the proposals of the juridical texts having led to the GATT of 1947 and to the creation of the WTO in 1994. On the other hand, developing countries which demanded the institution of a preferential treatment: a policy aiming at considering their delay of development. This measure did not bring concrete, permanent and visible, economic development with a majority of Developing countries. This is why, the idea relating to the abandonment of preferential regime seems appropriate. As part of the negotiations of the Doha Development Agenda, developing countries do have not any more interest in demanding the strengthening of SDT. The multilateral trades have to be based on a North/South partnership and the development of the incorporation of developing countries within the different regional commercial blocks. The evolution of localism allows so to acquire an uniform multilateral commercial system compounding with the objective of WTO.