1990年12月布鲁塞尔部长级会议破裂,使对贸易改革抱有希望的乌拉圭多边贸易谈判濒临失败。布鲁塞尔会议的结果降低了人们对关贸总协定谈判能够达成协议的期望,重新引起人们对关贸总协定体制本身前途的关注。有的评论认为,关贸总协定已经进入死胡同,多边贸易体制正在转变为地区性贸易集团,如果立法上还没有这样做,事实上则已经是这样了。 The collapse of the Brussels ministerial conference in December 1990 left the Uruguay multilateral trade negotiations, which have promises of trade reform, on the verge of failure. The outcome of the Brussels meeting lowered expectations that GATT negotiations could reach an agreement and rekindled concerns about the future of the GATT system itself. Some commented that the GATT has entered a dead end and that the multilateral trading system is being transformed into a regional trading bloc. In fact, this is already the case if this has not been done in the legislation.