An Import Licensing Notification Portal was launched on 31 October at a meeting of the Committee on Import Licensing Procedures. The platform allows members to draft and submit notifications online. Members also reviewed 42 notifications submitted since the last meeting of the Committee and (...)
On 31 October 2023, Indonesia notified the WTO’s Committee on Safeguards that it initiated on 27 October four safeguard investigations. The subject products are: (i) artificial filament yarn, (ii) cotton fabric, (iii) cotton yarn, and (iv) woven fabrics of artificial filament (...)
The working group on food security reviewed on 31 October a revised report of the coordinator, with the aim of reaching consensus on a final report and set of recommendations by end-November to help address the concerns of least-developed countries (LDCs) and net food-importing developing (...)
The WTO issued today (31 October) the 2023 edition of Trade Profiles, an annual publication providing key data on merchandise trade and trade in commercial services for 197 economies. Each two-page profile provides a breakdown of the economy’s major exports and imports and its main trading (...)
At the 30-31 October meeting of the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), WTO members continued their discussion on whether to extend the TRIPS Decision adopted at the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) to COVID-19 therapeutics and diagnostics. They also (...)
The first WTO Regional Trade Policy Course organized in collaboration with the University of Lomé, Togo, is taking place from 20 October to 8 December. The course brings together 24 government officials from 15 WTO members and observers from across French-speaking (...)
At a meeting of the Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM) on 27 October 2023, the Chair of the Committee, Mr James Lester (New Zealand), underlined that transparency regarding WTO members’ trade measures is fundamentally important for the work of the Committee. He emphasized (...)
The co-convenors of e-commerce talks — Australia, Japan and Singapore — outlined to participants at the latest round of negotiations on 25-27 October the next steps towards concluding the talks by year-end. The package on the table “is a result of five years of hard work and even though it does (...)
The Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) agreed at its meeting on 26 October to a request from Argentina for the establishment of a dispute panel to review anti-dumping duties imposed by the United States on oil country tubular goods (OCTG) imported from Argentina. WTO members also considered a (...)