The WTO has updated its technical assistance (TA) dashboards with new infographics and the latest available data so that WTO members, donors and the public can better track the implementation of technical assistance programmes. For the first time, the dashboards contain breakdowns of the (...)
WTO members must do more to safeguard and expand the role of trade as a tool to create jobs, reduce poverty and increase economic opportunity, WTO Deputy Director-General Anabel González said at a conference hosted by the World Bank and the Peterson Institute for International Economics on 14 (...)
The WTO’s “Trade Forum on Decarbonization Standards: Promoting coherence and transparency in the steel sector” will bring together over 20 speakers from the public and private sectors in an event on 9 March. The full programme and registration are now available (...)
Deputy Director-General Angela Ellard delivered on 14 February a spotlight talk at the German-American Trade and Tech Conference organized by Aspen Institute Germany. In her speech, DDG Ellard addressed recent trends in international trade, the role of technology and the WTO’s current work in (...)
Members of the Informal Working Group on Trade and Gender on 14 February began discussions on the 2023 work plan drafted by the co-chairs. Members’ activities and exchanges under the work plan will serve as a basis for reaching an outcome on trade and gender at the 13th Ministerial Conference (...)
On 14 February 2023, Madagascar notified the WTO’s Committee on Safeguards that it initiated on 11 February 2023 a safeguard investigation on concentrated milk and that it imposed a provisional measure.
Deputy Director-General Angela Ellard participated on 13 February in an “armchair discussion” with Ambassador Rufus Yerxa, former WTO Deputy Director-General, at the 2023 Washington International Trade Conference, where she discussed outcomes of last June’s 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12), (...)
Singapore deposited its instrument of acceptance for the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies on 10 February, making it the second WTO member and first coastal state to do so. Acceptances from two-thirds of WTO members are needed for the Agreement to come into (...)
Deputy Director-General Angela Ellard delivered a lecture to the US National War College on 10 February in which she addressed economic multilateralism as a potent instrument of economic power and sustainable development. She discussed the economic underpinnings and basic principles of the WTO, (...)