The 1 July meeting of the Council on Trade in Services addressed the WTO work programme on e-commerce and the operationalization of a waiver from WTO rules that allows members to offer more favourable market access for service providers from least developed countries (LDCs). Members also (...)
The WTO Secretariat has published a further update of its information note on trade in medical goods in the context of tackling COVID-19. The update provides figures on trade in medical goods covering all of 2020.
To facilitate discussions ahead of the 15 July meeting of ministers, the chair of the fisheries subsidies negotiations, Ambassador Santiago Wills of Colombia, introduced on 30 June a revised draft text. He and Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, said the proposed changes in the text are (...)
The heads of the World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund, World Health Organization and the WTO convened on 30 June the first meeting of the Task Force on COVID-19 Vaccines, Therapeutics and Diagnostics for Developing Countries. David Malpass, Kristalina Georgieva, Dr Tedros Adhanom (...)
Germany is pledging EUR 150,000 (approximately CHF 164,000) in 2021 to help developing and least-developed countries (LDCs) participate more actively in agricultural trade. This grant to the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) aims to support developing countries in complying with (...)
Video highlights from the June session of the 109th International Labour Conference, including coverage of the adoption of the Global Call to Action outlining measures to create a human-centred recovery from the pandemic.
According to the latest estimates of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the number of migrant workers has increased by 5 million since 2017. The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the critical role migrants play as essential workers, but it has also exposed their vulnerability to the (...)
The WTO co-hosted the final round of the 19th edition of the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition on WTO Law, which took place on 22-27 June. Sri Lanka’s University of Colombo emerged as the winner of the competition, while Belgium’s Katholieke Universiteit Leuven was the (...)
China has requested WTO dispute consultations with Australia regarding anti-dumping and countervailing duty measures imposed by Australia on imports of wind towers, deep drawn stainless steel sinks and railway wheels from China. The request was circulated to WTO members on 29 (...)