In a blow to hopes that plurilateral talks can keep WTO rule-making alive, a handful of members hold out against adding investment and e-commerce agreements to the rules| Trade β Blog
That was June 2022. This is late 2024. And the agreement still isn’t in force anywhere in the world. Speaks volumes for governments’ commitment to sustainability| Trade β Blog
Timeline with links to some key documents and news. From 2024| Trade β Blog
The talks’ chair asked members ‘whether continuing our negotiations in the same way as we have been doing over the last several years, and grounded in the MC12 mandate, will lead us to success’…| Trade β Blog
Three critical papers from India suggest consensus is still as elusive as it was in Abu Dhabi, despite efforts to conclude before the summer break| Trade β Blog
They say the proposed changes “result in a more balanced, preferable and more viable text” and join 28 others in pushing for a deal next month| Trade β Blog
Timeline with links to some key documents and news, 2020–2023| Trade β Blog
For the up-coming General Council, deadlock in current negotiations and at the recent Abu Dhabi Ministerial Conference have triggered a renewed focus on an old problem| Trade β Blog
Lots to think about as WTO delegations pick up the pieces from Abu Dhabi and look ahead to the next conference in two years’ time and beyond| Trade β Blog
The misleadingly-named “public stockholding” (“PSH”) could be more correctly called “(over-the-limit) Price support in food Stock-Holding”| Trade β Blog
In honour of the WTO’s 13th Ministerial Conference happening this week - and the attention on what will happen to the moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions - this post looks at an interesting record from the Clinton Administration in 1998 when the moratorium was born (which I highlighted| tradenotes.substack.com
We’d better be prepared for little or nothing substantial when ministers meet in Abu Dhabi at the end of the month| Trade β Blog