On 18 May 2015, the WTO Appellate Body issued its “compliance report” in the case “United States — Country of origin labelling requirements” (WT/DS384/386). The complainants in this case were Canada and Mexico.
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 20 May 2015, 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 officially (...)
Raymond Torres, Head of the ILO Research department, introduces the new annual flagship report “World Employment and Social Outlook 2015: The Changing Nature of Jobs”.
The government of Austria is contributing EUR 200,000 (CHF 210,000) to the WTO’s technical assistance activities in 2015. This amount consists of EUR 100,000 (CHF 105,000) to the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund (DDAGTF) and EUR 100,000 (CHF 105,000) to the Trade Facilitation (...)
The Russian Federation notified the WTO Secretariat on 7 May 2015 of a request for consultations regarding anti-dumping measures adopted by Ukraine on imports of ammonium nitrate.
Many participants urged a swift conclusion to ongoing negotiations on the expansion of the ITA product coverage (ITA 2) at the meeting of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) Committee on 8 May. They also commended the holding of the workshop the previous day on non-tariff barriers in (...)
At the second meeting of the Working Party on Liberia’s WTO accession on 7 May 2015, WTO members demonstrated consensus for the conclusion of Liberia’s accession at the WTO’s Tenth Ministerial Conference in December in Nairobi, (...)