On 8 February, Brazil notified the WTO Secretariat that it had requested WTO dispute consultations with Canada regarding alleged subsidies provided to Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier.
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 17 February 2017, 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 (...)
جناب آقای مهندس اسحاق جهانگیری معاون اول رئیس جمهور در نامهای به کلیه وزراتخانهها، سازمانها، مؤسسات و شرکتهای دولتی، نهادهای انقلاب اسلامی و استانداریها سراسر کشور، با اشاره به ماده ۲ و ۳ قانون بهبود مستمر محیط کسب و کار، آنان را مکلف کرد که نظر تشکلهای ذیربط را هنگام اخذ تصمیمهای مختلف مورد توجه قرار دهند. خاطر نشان میشود این (...)
WTO members expressed unanimous support for the resumption of Sudan’s WTO membership negotiations at the 3rd meeting of the Working Party on the country’s accession held on 31 January 2017 – 13 years after its last formal meeting.
The Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) met on 30 January to mark the entry into force of the first amendment to WTO rules since the organization was established. The amendment secures a legal pathway to ease access to affordable medicines in developing (...)
On 27 January the Russian Federation notified the WTO Secretariat that it had requested WTO dispute consultations with the European Union regarding anti-dumping duties imposed by the EU on imports of certain cold-rolled flat steel products originating from (...)
WTO members discussed an external evaluation of the WTO’s training activities at a meeting of the Committee on Trade and Development on 27 January 2017. The report notes the success of the training programme in helping developing countries improve their capacity to trade and makes (...)
On 27 January the WTO issued the panel report in the case brought by the European Union in “Russia — Anti-Dumping Duties on Light Commercial Vehicles from Germany and Italy” (DS479).
As we mark Brazil’s National Day to Combat Forced Labour on 28 January, read the true story of Rafael Ferreira, who was forced into slavery in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso when he was 12 years old. Five years later he was rescued and is now about to start university with the help of the (...)