Kazakhstan informed the Committee on Government Procurement at its 26 February meeting of the progress it has made to initiate negotiations to join the WTO plurilateral Government Procurement Agreement (GPA). The Committee also discussed the ongoing negotiations of China, the Kyrgyz Republic, (...)
The United States contributed USD 600,000 (CHF 590,000) in 2019 to help developing and least-developed countries (LCDs) participate effectively in global trade negotiations. This donation will finance training workshops for officials from WTO member governments to help them deepen their (...)
Lithuania is contributing EUR 50,000 (CHF 53,000) to help developing and least-developed countries take an active part in global trade negotiations. The contribution was acknowledged by Director-General Roberto Azevêdo at a meeting with Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Linas Linkevičius, (...)
At a meeting of the Agriculture Committee in Special Session on 24-25 February, discussions focused on the elements and processes that are “oriented towards achieving an outcome” by the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12), in Nur-Sultan in June. “We need more engagement from delegations to find (...)
Speaking at a side event of the WTO agriculture negotiation meetings on 24 February, Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff hailed the strong commitment of seventy-two agriculture ministers to strengthen the WTO for achieving sustainable agriculture trade as expressed in a communiqué at the Berlin (...)
Three years since the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) entered into force on 22 February 2017, WTO members have continued to make steady progress in its implementation. Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, on the occasion of the TFA’s third anniversary, welcomed members’ efforts to ensure traders (...)
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The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 28 February 2020, 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 (...)
On 18 February 2020, the Philippines notified the WTO’s Committee on Safeguards that it initiated on 6 February 2020 a “preliminary safeguard investigation” on motor vehicles.