Hard-Won Deal Points to WTO's Struggle

NUSA DUA, Indonesia—Efforts to liberalize global trade inched forward over the weekend, but the limited progress showed the difficulties of broadly reducing trade barriers for all nations and the rising appeal of smaller regional pacts.
Negotiators at the World Trade Organization meeting in Bali, Indonesia, agreed to a scaled-back package aimed primarily at streamlining customs procedures world-wide, a modest breakthrough in the trade discussions that began in 2001 in Doha, Qatar. The agreement could add billions of…

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