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 (...)
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. (...)