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15 November 2018
WTO members negotiating a proposed agreement to tackle harmful fisheries subsidies held a second cluster of meetings last week as part of their September-December work programme, hearing reports about brainstorming sessions in “incubator groups” the week before and completing the streamlining of a...
27 October 2018
Пути укрепления и модернизации ВТО обсудили министры и главы делегаций ряда стран и ЕС на встрече в Оттаве 24–25 октября 2018 года. По результатам переговоров они подписали совместное коммюнике . Министры и главы делегацией 13 членов ВТО (Австралии, Бразилии, ЕС, Канады, Кении, Мексики, Новой...
27 September 2018
The WTO’s agriculture negotiations resumed last week after the organisation’s annual August hiatus. While the discussions were mainly limited to reviewing negotiating submissions, analysis, and data, some sources indicated that the level of engagement seemed noticeably improved from recent meetings...
2 August 2018
The WTO is due to hold its next ministerial conference in June 2020 in Astana, Kazakhstan, after the General Council formally endorsed the Central Asian country’s bid as host last week. The global trade club is due to have a busy agenda, both on the negotiating front and in various other...
21 June 2018
WTO members reconvened last week to deliberate over new options to curb subsidies that encourage fishing of overfished stocks. The members also updated a set of “ working documents ” that aim to lay the groundwork for the next stage of negotiations, adding a section on definitions that builds off...
6 June 2018
Специальная сессия Комитета по сельскому хозяйству провела неофициальную встречу 24 мая 2018 г., которая стала первой после проведения 11-й Министерской конференции ВТО в Буэнос-Айресе. Эта переговорная сессия состоялась на фоне продолжающихся напряженностей в торговле и разногласий о том, на каких...
22 March 2018
Trade ministers and senior officials meeting in New Delhi on 19-20 March defended the role of the WTO as both an arbiter of trade disputes as well as setting the rules of the road for the multilateral trading system. Officials also met to discuss possible next steps for negotiations at the global...
1 March 2018
Trade officials from intergovernmental organisations and various missions weighed in on Wednesday 28 February regarding the WTO’s future in light of the various multi-country initiatives that emerged at the organisation’s ministerial conference last December. They also weighed what these could mean...
23 November 2017
WTO negotiators concluded another cluster of talks on fisheries subsidy disciplines last week, with one more round to go before heading to the organisation’s ministerial conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The 13-17 November meet at the WTO’s Geneva headquarters produced a set of “ working...
13 November 2017
В ходе заседания Переговорной группы по правилам члены ВТО детально рассмотрели ранее распространенный документ по субсидиям в рыболовстве, в который вошли семь предложений делегаций, и обсудили ряд новых предложений. Переговорщики также обменялись мнениями о том, какие именно вопросы должны быть...
9 November 2017
Over the past fortnight, a series of WTO members have put forward new proposals involving different aspects of the agriculture talks, including on trade-distorting domestic support, public stockholding for food security purposes, and on the quality and enforcement of notification requirements. In...
9 November 2017
Trade negotiators debated a series of additions to a draft, integrated text of proposals on disciplining harmful fisheries subsidies last week, during a cluster of meetings at the WTO’s Geneva headquarters. The meetings, held from 31 October to 3 November, followed on previous meetings in October...
9 November 2017
The past weeks have seen WTO negotiators engage in intensive debate on how and whether to advance with an outcome on domestic regulation in services in time for the organisation’s eleventh ministerial conference (MC11), slated for 10-13 December in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A group of 25 WTO members...
26 October 2017
Susana Malcorra, the Argentine minister who will chair the WTO’s upcoming ministerial conference in Buenos Aires, told negotiators in Geneva last week that fisheries subsidies and agriculture remain high on the agenda for the December meeting, while reminding them that issues that do not yield...
19 October 2017
Торговля услугами составляет две трети мирового ВВП и привлекает две трети прямых иностранных инвестиций, сообщил Генеральный директор ВТО Роберту Азеведу в рамках Глобального саммита услуг, который проходил 17 октября 2017 г. в Вашингтоне. Изменения правил торговли услугами – вопрос, который...