Seychelles has become the latest country to accept the 2005 protocol amending the WTO’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). Ms Cillia Mangroo, Director-General of the Trade Division at Seychelles’ Ministry of Finance, Trade and the Blue Economy, presented (...)
Online registration for the 2016 Public Forum is now open on the WTO website: www.wto.org/pf16. The Forum will be held at the WTO’s headquarters in Geneva from 27 to 29 September. Under the theme “Inclusive Trade”, it will be an opportunity for participants to discuss how a wider range of (...)
Representatives from more than 150 countries participated in a workshop at the WTO on 8 June to share their experiences on setting up and maintaining national trade facilitation committees, a requirement under the new Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). Experts from more than 20 countries and (...)
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo gave the closing address at a ‘Think 20’ conference on ‘Global Trade and Investment Cooperation: Openness, Inclusiveness and Growth’, which was held at the WTO on 8 June. He highlighted a range of suggestions that had been raised during the session, including the (...)
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo gave the keynote address at the World Trade Symposium in London today (7 June), organised by the Financial Times and Misys, on the topic ‘Trade and Globalisation in the 21st Century: the Path to Greater Inclusion’. His full speech is available (...)
The chairman of the WTO’s Council on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) urged members during a 7-8 June meeting to “revitalize” discussions in the Council, including by allowing for more open exchanges through informal (...)
WTO members undertook at the Agriculture Committee meeting on 7 and 8 June their first review of agricultural export policies since the Nairobi ministerial decision to scrap farm export subsidies in all developed countries. Members also exchanged questions and answers about WTO members’ farm (...)
On 7 June 2016, the WTO Appellate Body issued its report in the case “Colombia— Measures Relating to the Importation of Textiles, Apparel and Footwear” brought by Panama.
France’s Minister for Labour, Employment, Vocational Training and Social Dialogue, Ms Myriam El Khomri, explains why France has ratified the Forced Labour Protocol. We also hear from Yves Veyrier, Garance Pineau and Claude Jeannerot about what this means for the workers, the employers and the (...)