Viet Nam is an example of how global trade can be used to drive economic development and expand opportunities for people, Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala stated in an address to the Foreign Trade University in Hanoi on 18 May. The Director-General also encouraged the Vietnamese government (...)
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) deposited its instrument of acceptance for the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies on 16 May, making it the seventh WTO member to do so. Acceptances from two-thirds of WTO members are needed for the Agreement to come into effect. UAE Ambassador Ahmed Abdulrahman Al (...)
WTO members on 16 May shared experiences on facilitating digital trade and electronic transactions and discussed what the WTO can do to address this topic. The discussions took place in a dedicated session under the Work Programme on Electronic (...)
Deputy Director-General Angela Ellard on 15 May encouraged parliamentarians from around the globe to promptly ratify the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies so that it can start delivering its benefits for the ocean and the people who depend on it. In remarks delivered to the RSIS-WTO Workshop for (...)
More than 60 government officials from 34 WTO members and observers deepened their knowledge of the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) 2012 at a workshop held virtually from 17 April to 12 May. Participants discussed improving the transparency and efficiency of government procurement (...)
WTO members have discussed progress in undertaking the Work Programme of the MC12 Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Declaration aimed at identifying and addressing challenges in the implementation of the Agreement on the Application of SPS Measures. Members held a third round of intersessional (...)
At the 2023 Heckscher-Ohlin Conference on 11 May organized by the Swedish National Board of Trade and the Stockholm School of Economics Center for Asian Studies, Deputy Director-General Anabel González highlighted the role of researchers, universities and think tanks in providing intellectual (...)
Iceland deposited its instrument of acceptance for the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies on 10 May, making it the sixth WTO member to do so. Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Ambassador Einar Gunnarsson of Iceland, who is also chair of the ongoing second wave of fisheries subsidies (...)
Deputy Director-General Jean-Marie Paugam emphasized the role of the WTO in supporting climate-friendly innovation in agriculture on 9 May at the “Agriculture Innovation Mission (AIM) for Climate Summit” in Washington D.C. organized by the United States and the United Arab Emirates. Emphasizing (...)