WTO members discussed a number of new and long-running issues such as plain packaging for tobacco products, measures related to biodiversity, innovation in green technologies, and the role of universities, when they met as the intellectual property council on 25–26 February 2014. But they failed (...)
The government of Estonia has donated EUR 20,000 (CHF 24,400) to the WTO Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund for 2014. This donation will finance a wide range of trade-related technical assistance activities to help developing and least-developed countries (LDCs) to participate (...)
The WTO invites young economists to submit papers for the 2014 WTO Essay Award for Young Economists by 1 June 2014. The Award aims to promote high-quality research on trade policy and international trade co-operation among young economists and to reinforce the relationship between the WTO and (...)
Technical work on Azerbaijan’s accession to the WTO “has gained positive momentum” said the Working Party Chairman Ambassador Walter Lewalter (Germany) at the 11th meeting of the Working Party on 21 February 2014.
On 19 February 2014, India notified the WTO’s Committee on Safeguards that it initiated on 13 February 2014 a safeguard investigation on saturated fatty alcohols.
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, in presenting his first global trade-monitoring report to WTO members on 17 February 2014, said that trade growth projections for this year are “much improved, hovering somewhere between 4.0% and 4.5%.” However, he said “407 new restrictive measures were reported (...)
Twenty-five officials participated in the first ever WTO Intermediate Thematic Course for Least-Developed Countries, conducted in French in Geneva on 17-28 February 2014. The course was opened by Ms Bridget Chilala, Director of the Institute for Training and Technical Co-operation (ITTC) and Mr (...)
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 26 February 2014, 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 (...)
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