After Donald Trump’s inauguration as 47th president of the United States in January 2025, rumors began to […] The post The End Of The WTO? appeared first on TheAltWorld.| TheAltWorld
With WTO gridlock and Trump tariffs escalating, India’s agriculture sector struggles to balance trade, climate, and farmer demands. #WTO #agriculture #tariffs| Policy Circle
I will be a discussant on the recent WTO arbitral decision in DS/611 before a virtual meeting Friends of the Multilateralism Group (FMG). The FMG brings together WTO Ambassadors&n…| China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China
Speaking in the WTO General Council, Brazil also condemned “an extremely dangerous shift towards the use of tariffs as a tool to interfere in the domestic affairs of third countries”| Trade β Blog
This is a temporary post created to allow a notification to be sent by email to subscribers. July 16, 2025 World Trade Organization delegations in Geneva start a second round of consultations today with Norway Ambassador Petter Ølberg. In his email inviting them to the July 16–18 informal talks, the WTO General Council’s “facilitator” called … Continue reading "Subscriber alert. Round 2 of ‘WTO reform’ talks starts today"| Trade β Blog
Despite overwhelming support for his draft, departing chair Gunnarsson sees little chance of quick agreement as a few members drag the talks backwards| Trade β Blog
Neither the fault nor the solution lies in Geneva. Perhaps it’s time for activist ministers and their officials to rally political concern for multilateral trade| Trade β Blog
The biggest problem is not institutional. It’s about fundamental disagreements among WTO member governments| Trade β Blog
Norwegian ambassador lists points where members agree and where their views diverge widely on what they believe needs to be reformed| Trade β Blog
The EU Commission president called the WTO “defunct”. And German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said “The WTO hasn’t worked for years.” Both are wrong| Trade β Blog
The paper and accompanying data appendix focus largely on the clout of emerging economies in the WTO, the main arena where global power in trade can be assessed| Trade β Blog
102 members have ratified. 63 members still have not. 9 more are needed to activate the agreement in ratifying countries. Those subsidies are still not being curbed. Who’s to blame?| Trade β Blog
This is a temporary post created to allow a notification to be sent by email to subscribers. Added June 14, 2025REACTIONSTrade experts had mixed reactions to Ølberg’s appointment and to his questio…| Trade β Blog
Petter Ølberg has asked members three questions, but it’s unclear whether the answers will extend to the fundamental problems in capitals| Trade β Blog
The claim will be challenged since the 2022 agreement is not in force anywhere and it omits the key point of Target 14.6: overcapacity and overfishing| Trade β Blog
China and the US exchange strong words, and Brazil, Canada and the EU lead concerns about damage to the system| Trade β Blog
The WTO recently released its decision in DS 611, the IP enforcement case involving China's SEP practices and transparency of China's judicial decision making. The case makes some progress on China's important transparency obligations.| China IPR – Intellectual Property Developments in China
The State Department has recently posted the revised US-China Science and Technology Agreement. The revised agreement was concluded in the waning months of the Biden Administration. The revised STA…| China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China
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
The ruling allows the agreed text to be found officially in a single document, and suggests the more complicated changes that held up 60 certifications were unnecessary| 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
Written by Ming-Cheng Li. This article highlights the WTO as the fundamental economic pathway for Taiwan to join the CPTPP. Taiwan has demonstrated its willingness to conform to international stand…| Taiwan Insight
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
The misleadingly-named “public stockholding” (“PSH”) could be more correctly called “(over-the-limit) Price support in food Stock-Holding”| Trade β Blog
