WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala called on members to renew momentum in the discussions on development issues in the run-up to the 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13), to be held in Abu Dhabi in February 2024. Speaking at the General Council on 8 May, the Director-General urged members (...)
The government of Germany has contributed the first EUR 500,000 (approximately CHF 493,000) of a multi-year donation of EUR 2 million to the new WTO Fisheries Trust Fund to assist developing members and least-developed country (LDC) members to implement the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies. Mr (...)
Building on the WTO’s long-standing partnership with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Deputy-Director General Jean-Marie Paugam visited IICA’s headquarters in San José, Costa Rica, on 5 May to discuss priority areas for future collaboration aimed at better (...)
Twenty-three government officials representing developing members and least-developed country members completed on 5 May a four-day training course on trade and gender at the WTO headquarters in Geneva. The course was the first training activity on trade and gender provided in 2023 by the WTO (...)
A total of 26 government officials from 15 least-developed countries (LDCs) are attending the WTO’s Introductory Trade Policy Course for LDCs taking place from 24 April to 12 May at the WTO. The aim of the course is for participants to familiarize themselves with matters related to the (...)
At a plenary meeting on 4 May following two days of consultations, WTO members participating in the negotiations on investment facilitation for development (IFD) commended the substantive progress made in the Draft Agreement since the start of this year. The co-coordinators of the talks, (...)
At meetings open to all WTO members on 3-4 May, the chair of the agriculture negotiations — Alparslan Acarsoy of Türkiye — urged participants to accelerate their efforts to find common ground ahead of the 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13), which is due to take place in Abu Dhabi in February 2024. (...)
Since its launch in 2019, the SDG3 GAP has improved coordination in key areas such as sustainable financing and primary health care to reach the Global Goals.
Meeting on 3 May, the WTO’s Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices reviewed the latest notifications from members of new, amended or previously reviewed anti-dumping laws and regulations as well as reports on anti-dumping actions.
The WTO has opened online registration for this year’s Public Forum — titled “It is Time for Action” — to be held at the WTO’s headquarters in Geneva from 12 to 15 September. It has also launched a call for proposals for the event.