The Committee on Trade and Environment (CTE) met on 1 and 5 June - marking the start and the conclusion of the seventh edition of WTO Trade and Environment Week - with members reaffirming the significance of this platform for dialogue and cooperation on trade and environment issues. Members (...)
The Heads of the International Energy Agency, International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group and World Trade Organization met on May 28 as part of the high-level coordination group established in April to maximise their institutions’ response to the energy, trade, and economic impacts of the war (...)
On 27 May 2026, New Zealand notified the WTO’s Committee on Safeguards of the initiation on 28 May 2026 of a safeguard investigation on imports of certain aluminium extrusions.
Senior executives from leading global shipping companies and industry groups underlined growing operational and economic challenges to goods trade during a 28 May meeting with WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. They noted that, while global supply chains have demonstrated resilience, (...)
The WTO Secretariat and the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie (APF) concluded a two-day workshop in Geneva on 28-29 May bringing together francophone parliamentarians to deepen their engagement with the WTO and the multilateral trading (...)
The Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology met on 28 May to discuss how to continue advancing work on increasing flows of technology to developing economies following the WTO’s 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14) in Yaoundé in March. The newly elected Chair, Ambassador Sumathi (...)
Deputy Director-General DJ Nordquist called for urgent action by WTO members to complete the acceptance and implementation of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies and to advance negotiations on additional disciplines targeting overcapacity and overfishing. She delivered her remarks on 27 May at (...)
The sixteenth review of the trade policies and practices of Japan takes place on 27 and 29 May 2026. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a report by the Government of Japan.
At a meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) on 22 May, members considered a request from China for the establishment of a dispute panel to review measures in India affecting imports of solar cells, solar modules and information technology goods. The new DSB Chair, Ambassador Guilherme de (...)
Members emphasized the growing strain on the rules-based trading system amid escalating trade tensions and compliance challenges at a meeting of the WTO’s Goods Council on 20-21 May chaired by its recently elected Chairperson, Ambassador Erwin Bollinger (Switzerland). Delegations in attendance (...)