Addressing a group of agriculture ministers at the 12th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin on 18 January, Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff highlighted the need to harness the power of multilateral trade agreements to meet the complex challenges facing the agricultural sector. In (...)
A WTO Secretariat briefing session for new WTO delegates on the work and mission of the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) will be held on 28 January. The aim of the briefing is helping delegates prepare for TRIPS Council meetings and become familiarized (...)
At a 16-17 January meeting of the Negotiating Group on Rules, WTO members kicked off the first set of 2020 meetings aimed at securing a global agreement on reducing harmful fisheries subsidies by the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) in Nur-Sultan in June. Among other issues, members discussed (...)
On 18 December the United States, under Article 16 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding, notified the Dispute Settlement Body of its decision to appeal issues of law and legal interpretations developed by the WTO compliance panel in its report in the case brought by India in “United States — (...)
An updated version of the Services Trade Policy Database, jointly developed by the WTO and the World Bank, was presented at the WTO on 16 January. The database now contains new information on the services trade policies and regulations applied by 68 economies and incorporates data on 23 (...)
Austria is donating EUR 200,000 (approximately CHF 220,000) to the WTO’s DDA Global Trust Fund in 2020 to help developing countries and least-developed countries (LDCs) implement WTO agreements and to increase their trade negotiating (...)
Statistics on cooperatives are essential to quantify the impact of cooperatives on their members and the economy as a whole. Currently reliable and comparable statistics on cooperatives are missing in most countries of the world. The ILO, in collaboration with its constituents and a number of (...)
In a speech to Chinese university students visiting the WTO on 13 January, Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff underlined that China’s accession to the WTO accelerated the country’s process of internal economic reform. He said that the multilateral trading system provides the essential (...)
«آزادی انجمن» در اقتصاد سرمایهداری از این جهت اهمیت دارد که بدون وجود این آزادی، سرمایهداری، به جای تمرکز بر ارتقای روشهای افزایش بهرهوری، کسب سود از طریق بهرهکشی را آسانتر خواهد یافت و در این صورت، تضادهای طبقاتی حادتر شده و کل نظام سرمایهداری در معرض نابودی قرار خواهد گرفت. در پی نقدهایی که جریانات سیاسی رادیکال از بهرهکشی (...)
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 13 January 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 (...)