This from today's WSJ:
The leaders embraced a renewed effort to unblock global trade talks and promised they will refrain from using commercial barriers to protect their own industries for the next 12 months. "We agreed on the importance of rejecting protectionism," Mr. Brown said. "It is the first time that a meeting of world leaders has instructed ministers to come to an agreement and I think we will see an agreement in the next few weeks."
It will be interesting to see whether the financial crisis, and the fear of Great-Depression-type protectionism, will get the Doha Round back on its bicycle. Recall that the bicycle theory of trade negotiations is that if you stop, you fall down--in the form of a protectionist race to the bottom.
