The other major issue in the global talks is intellectual property.

Europe and America are deep in the latest round of global trade talks with developing nations.

It's easy to shrug off this week's collapse of global trade talks.

He won the attention of international economic officials for his work in starting the current global trade talks shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks.

At the same time, a failure could be seen as a stunning blow to global trade talks.

If the senior officials of the world's two biggest economies cannot agree, global trade talks usually fail.

But Washington now shows scant enthusiasm for a new round of global talks.

His purpose, Administration officials said, is to give greater momentum to global trade liberalization talks among 96 nations.

And they talk more about that lately than restarting the global trade talks.

The reforms were also considered a prerequisite for progress on global trade talks.