The Secretariats of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) have launched a joint call for contributions for research papers on regulatory aspects of digital trade, and inclusive and sustainable development dynamics, particularly with (...)
The Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) agreed at its meeting on 28 July to a request from the European Union for the establishment of a compliance panel to review the United States’ implementation of an earlier panel ruling regarding US countervailing duties on ripe olives from Spain. The DSB also (...)
“We have our work cut out for us post summer,” the co-convenors of e-commerce talks told participants at their meetings from 26 to 28 July. They said they intend to circulate before the summer break an updated negotiating text, which will show the progress achieved so far in finding “landing (...)
A new cohort of 29 government officials from 16 WTO members successfully completed on 28 July the 30th Advanced Trade Policy Course in French. The course took place at WTO headquarters in Geneva.
A new edition of the Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade issued today (28 July) provides a framework and practical guidance on how to measure digital trade. Building upon the first edition issued in 2019, the Handbook aims to address the challenges inherent in measuring digital trade and to (...)
On 27 July 2023, Indonesia notified the WTO’s Committee on Safeguards that it had decided to initiate on 25 July 2023 a safeguard investigation on slag wool, rock wool, and similar mineral wools (including intermixtures thereof), in bulk, sheets or (...)
The government of Sweden is contributing SEK 5 million (approximately CHF 500,000) to the WTO Fisheries Funding Mechanism to assist developing members and least-developed country members in implementing the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies. Ambassador Mikael Anzén presented the contribution to (...)
On 27 July, the WTO circulated the panel report in the case brought by Costa Rica in “Dominican Republic — Anti-dumping measures on corrugated steel bars” (DS605).
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