世贸组织分析家预计,2000年全球商品贸易可能增长6-7％,从而摆脱因1997年亚洲金融危机而一直处于低速状态的困境。如果事实证明分析家对2000年贸易增长所做的预测正确,那么全球商品贸易将进入一个持续上升的阶段。 据国际货币基金组织统计,尽管1999年全球产值增长幅度不超过3％,但由于发 WTO analysts predict that in 2000 global trade in goods may increase by 6-7%, so as to get out of the doldrums that have been at a low level due to the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Global trade in commodities will enter a phase of continued upward growth if it turns out that analysts were right about the forecast for trade growth in 2000. According to the statistics of the International Monetary Fund, although the global output growth in 1999 did not exceed 3%, due to the