This can be considered a valuable achievement of the Doha Round negotiations. According to most influential analytical exercises, plausible Doha proposals (based on 2008 modalities) can add $360 billion in new trade each year (The Economist. Despite sceptics’ scrutiny about the relative magnitude of these potential benefits, the latter should be regarded as quite significant, particularly since they exclude the gains from new policy disciplines, additional bindings by countries, trade facilitation measures and AfT support.