WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo visited Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, today (16 February) as part of his current visit to West Africa. The Director-General met with President Alassane Ouattara, Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan, Minister of Trade Jean-Louis Billon and other senior government (...)
Modern slavery affects 21 million people worldwide. Behind these statistics are millions of harrowing human stories. Jonas was deceived, trafficked to the United Kingdom and pushed to the brink. The ILO is working with the UK Gangmasters Licensing Authority to combat modern slavery and help (...)
WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo visited Abuja, Nigeria, today (15 February) to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari and discuss how trade, and the WTO, can serve Nigeria in the years to come. He also met with Vice President Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo, Minister of Industry, Trade and (...)
Cambodia has ratified the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), becoming the 8th least-developed country to do so. Cambodia deposited its TFA instrument of acceptance with the WTO Secretariat on 12 February.
On 12 February, the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) adopted the Appellate Body report on compliance by the European Union in its dispute with China over iron and steel products.
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo convened a meeting of all WTO members today (10 February) to discuss the future work of the organization. It was the first meeting of the full membership since the WTO’s Ministerial Conference in (...)
On 9 February 2016, Thailand notified the WTO’s Committee on Safeguards that it initiated on 4 February 2016 a safeguard investigation on structural hot rolled H-Beam with alloy.
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 12 February 2016, 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 (...)