Law360, New York ( July 10, 2015, 10:47 AM EDT) -- The World Trade Organization, aside from dispute settlement and last year's adoption of the Protocol for the Trade Facilitation Agreement (an agreement which requires 108 members to file acceptances before it takes effect),[1] has struggled for most of the 20 years of its existence for relevance in the historic role of its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, of being a negotiating forum for global trade liberalization and global trade rules. The Doha Development Agenda (DDA), started at the WTO Ministerial in Doha, Qatar in December 2001, remains incomplete 13 1/2 years later. The effort to develop a game plan for concluding the round, while ongoing, is once more resulting in sliding completion targets as what has proven intractable for close to a decade remains so.[2] The prognosis of a "dumbed down" set of ambitions is almost certainly the best that can be hoped for between now and the Nairobi Ministerial in December of this year....