Businesses – from small- and medium-sized enterprises (sMes) to large transnational corporations
(tnCs) – produce the goods and services that are traded on a daily basis throughout the world.
technology and internet communication are allowing new businesses to join the global marketplace.
one of the challenges faced by business in an increasingly integrated global economy is the
absence or inadequacy of global rules in many crucial areas. the Wto has a fundamental role to
play in expanding and modernizing international rules for trade and investment – and in promoting
effective implementation of and compliance with those rules – in order to create an effective 21st
century rules-based multilateral system. For these reasons, the international Chamber of Commerce
(iCC), in partnership with Qatar Chamber, is mobilizing business worldwide around a 21st
century
multilateral World trade agenda (Wta) for economic growth and job creation.