Ethiopia delayed submission of documents, including its service offer, for its fourth round of negotiations with the working party members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Fortune reported.

The submissions has been originally scheduled for September, however, it has been postponed for an unspecified time as the documents are not finalized yet.

“Finalising the documents has become more difficult from what we projected it to be,” said Geremew Ayalew, foreign trade relations and negotiations director general at the Ministry of Trade. “It demanded more time because we have to include the stance of different stakeholders.”

The service offer will be delayed at least until January 2014, after the 9th WTO Ministerial Meeting is held, according to Geremew.

Ethiopia has submitted documents on agriculture, trade-related intellectual property rights and commodity offers in 2011.

Source: Fortune