The 2024-2025 period marks a peak for Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) measures requiring implementation assistance for developing and least-developed country (LDC) members, the Committee on Trade Facilitation heard at its meeting on 4-5 June. At the meeting, members focused on issues such as (...)
At a special meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) on 5 June, WTO members considered a request from Canada for the establishment of a dispute panel to review additional import duties imposed by China on certain Canadian agricultural and fisheries (...)
The government of China has pledged USD 600,000 (close to CHF 500,000) for 2025 to support the WTO’s Least-Developed Countries (LDCs) and Accessions Programme (also known as the China Programme). The contribution was confirmed at a signing ceremony on 3 June in Paris attended by WTO (...)
The WTO today (3 June 2025) introduced significant upgrades to its e-Learning platform, aimed at improving usability, security and performance for learners seeking to deepen their understanding of international trade law and the multilateral trading (...)
On 2 June, WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala received Nicaragua’s instrument of acceptance of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies from Nicaragua’s WTO Ambassador Rosalía Bohorquez Palacios. Just ten more acceptances are needed for the Agreement to enter into (...)
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 5 June 2025, 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 (...)
On 28 May, WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala received Malawi’s instrument of acceptance of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies from Malawi’s WTO Ambassador Caroline Bwanali-Mussa. Malawi brings to 100 the number of WTO members that have deposited their instrument of acceptance with the (...)
WTO members reached consensus on 27 May on a slate of names of the chairpersons for the 14 subsidiary bodies that report to the Council for Trade in Goods. The Chair of the Goods Council, Mr. Gustavo Nerio Lunazzi (Argentina), thanked delegations for their cooperation and flexibility in (...)
At a meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) on 23 May, WTO members considered a request from China for the establishment of a dispute panel to review surtax measures imposed by Canada on certain products of Chinese origin, including electric vehicles and steel and aluminium (...)
The Netherlands is extending its partnership with the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF), committing CHF 1.3 million to help developing economies enhance their sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) capacities. This contribution, which will enable value chain participants to strengthen (...)