At a meeting of the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) on 5 March, WTO members considered two requests from the European Union for dispute panels to examine India’s tariffs on certain high-tech goods and Colombia’s anti-dumping duties on frozen fries from Belgium, Germany and the (...)
Least developed country (LDC) members called for a decision at the WTO’s upcoming Ministerial Conference in June to strengthen the mandate of the Committee on Rules of Origin (CRO) by setting clearer obligations for preference-granting members to monitor the impact of their rules of origin on (...)
The number of young people currently not in employment, education or training (NEET) is rising, and young women are more than twice as likely as their male counterparts to be affected, according to the new International Labour Organization (ILO) report Global Employment Trends for Youth 2020: (...)
Trade diplomats, technical experts and business representatives gathered at the WTO on 4 March to mark the 25th anniversary of the Agreement on Rules of Origin — one of the WTO’s key accords covering trade policy measures which increasingly impact everyday cross-border trade. The event took place (...)
The Republic of Korea is contributing KRW 417 million (approximately CHF 350,000) to help developing and least-developed countries (LCDs) participate effectively in global trade negotiations. This donation to the WTO’s DDA Global Trust Fund will finance training workshops for government (...)
WTO members agreed at a meeting of the General Council on 3 March 2020 to establish a working party for the accession of Curaçao to the organization. Situated in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea and with a population of 163,000 people, Curaçao is a constituent country and separate customs (...)
Speaking at an event in Washington DC on the future of the WTO on 3 March, Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff said that more intensive engagement is necessary to ensure that the benefits of the multilateral trading system continue and are increased. He continued: “Humanity has done great things (...)
Argentina, Finland, Spain and Uruguay have all formally committed to ratify the ILO’s Convention that provides an international framework to end violence and harassment in the world of work.
At a meeting of the full WTO membership on 2 March, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo set out his views on how members could position themselves to deliver agreements on fisheries subsidies and other issues at the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) in June. He urged them to determine what can — (...)