Sisule F. Musungu – The World Trade Organization (WTO) has launched a discussion forum for the 2012 World Trade Report. The 2012 Report will focus on”Looking beyond international cooperation on tariffs”. The aim of the discussion forum is to encourage debate on the topic of the Report and researchers, policy-makers and others interested in the topic are invited to submit short articles (of no more than 1,000 words) on the topic and/or to submit views on the articles submitted by others. WTO Secretariat staff Marc Bacchetta and Cosimo Beverelli  have done a short paper providing background to the Report’s theme. The topic for the 2011 Report was “The WTO and preferential trade agreements: from co-existence to coherence”.