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Selling services like engineering or legal advice across borders requires receiving a range of permissions and authorisations. To do so, businesses may need to comply with licensing, qualifications and technical standard requirements. If navigating the bureaucracy to get these is excessively onerous, unpredictable, or expensive it can keep legitimate competition out of the market. The […] The post Services Domestic Regulation first appeared on WTO Plurilaterals.| Initiative - WTO Plurilaterals
The WTO E-commerce Joint Statement Initiative (JSI) aims to agree common rules in areas including: enabling electronic commerce; promoting openness and trust in e-commerce; cross-cutting issues; telecommunications and market access for e-commerce firms. The JSI was launched at the WTO Ministerial Conference in 2017. In 2019 under this initiative, e-commerce negotiations began and in 2020 […] The post Joint Statement Initiative on Electronic Commerce first appeared on WTO Plurilaterals.| Initiative - WTO Plurilaterals
Recommendation on promoting MSMEs’ inclusion in regulatory development in the area of trade (Annex 4);In early 2017, a group of WTO Members calling themselves the “Friends of Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (MSMEs),” led by Argentina, Brazil and Chile, successfully launched an informal dialogue on how the WTO could support the integration of MSMEs into […] The post Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) first appeared on WTO Plurilaterals.| Initiative - WTO Plurilaterals
At the 11th WTO Ministerial Conference in December 2017, trade and gender was raised formally on the WTO agenda with 118 WTO members endorsing the Buenos Aires Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment. The Declaration aimed to increase women’s participation in international trade, cultivate their economic empowerment and to remove the barriers facing them […] The post Trade and Gender first appeared on WTO Plurilaterals.| Initiative - WTO Plurilaterals
In order to maintain the efficacy of the rules-based trading system and for members to continue to have access to an independent appeal process for dispute settlement, 16 WTO members set up a separate appeal system for trade disputes in March 2020. Known as the Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA), it is an alternative […] The post Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA) first appeared on WTO Plurilaterals.| Initiative - WTO Plurilaterals
The Dialogue on Plastics Pollution is described by its proponents as being borne out of the recognition of the need for coordinated action to address the rising environmental, health and economic cost of plastics pollution and the importance of the trade dimension as a solution. Possible subjects for discussion include improving transparency, monitoring trade trends, […] The post Dialogue on Plastics Pollution (DPP) first appeared on WTO Plurilaterals.| Initiative - WTO Plurilaterals
The Trade and Environmental Sustainability Structured Discussions (TESSD) are intended to complement the work of the Committee on Trade and Environment and other relevant WTO bodies and to support the objectives of the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the WTO, which envisages a global trading system that protects and preserves the environment in accordance with sustainable development. […] The post Trade and Environmental Sustainability Structured Discussions (TESSD) first appeared on WTO P...| Initiative - WTO Plurilaterals
At the 2017 Ministerial Conference, New Zealand and eleven other WTO Members¹ delivered a statement at the encouraging the rationalization and phase out of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption. The statement recognized that reform needs to take into account the specific needs and conditions of developing countries and minimize the possible adverse […] The post Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform (FFSR) first appeared on WTO Plurilaterals.| Initiative - WTO Plurilaterals
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The Joint Initiative on Investment Facilitation for Development was launched by 70 members at the 11th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC11) in December 2017 and was driven by a need to address the trade barriers slowing down and restricting investment processes between countries. In November 2019, 98 WTO members issued a subsequent Joint Statement on Investment| WTO Plurilaterals