The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 28 March 2022, of the Dispute Settlement Body, which consists of all WTO members and oversees legal disputes among them. The meeting notice is circulated in the form of a document officially (...)
Speaking at the opening session of the first Tashkent International Investment Forum held in Tashkent on 24-26 March, Deputy Director-General Xiangchen Zhang outlined the potential benefits of WTO membership for Uzbekistan, which resumed its WTO accession process in 2020. “WTO members are (...)
Interviewed after his election on 25 march 2022, ILO Director-General Gilbert Houngbo highlights the need to ensure that economic progress is equitably distributed among the different segments of society. The ILO Governing Body has elected Gilbert F. Houngbo as the Organization’s 11th (...)
Canada is contributing CAD 200,000 (approximately CHF 150,000) to help developing and least-developed countries (LDCs) engage more actively in global agricultural trade. The grant to the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) aims to support countries in meeting international food (...)
Open and equitable international trade is at the centre of reinventing the global order to address the world’s most pressing challenges, H.E. Ms Mia Amor Mottley, the Prime Minister of Barbados, told a large audience at the inaugural event of the WTO’s Presidential Lecture Series on 23 March at (...)
The fourth review of the trade policies and practices of the United Arab Emirates takes place on 22 and 24 March 2022. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a report by the Government of the United Arab (...)
WTO agriculture negotiators met on 21 March to discuss the way forward ahead of the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12), which is now scheduled to take place the week of 13 June. The chair of the agriculture negotiating group, Ambassador Gloria Abraham Peralta (Costa Rica), noted the impact of (...)
To mark International Francophonie Day, the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) partnered with the permanent missions of Canada and France on 21 March to host an event aimed at strengthening sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) capacity in French-speaking African countries. In his (...)
The WTO can play an important role in strengthening global supply chains and helping promote economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and other global challenges, WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said at a Global Supply Chains Forum held virtually on 21 (...)
Participants in the Informal Dialogue on Plastics Pollution and Environmentally Sustainable Plastics Trade (IDP) launched on 18 March discussions in three new workstreams to advance work on reducing plastics waste. This marks the first step in implementing the IDP Ministerial Statement (...)