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Fisheries

WTO Fisheries Negotiators Resume Text-based Discussions, Get Work Programme Into Gear

24 May 2018
Negotiators aiming to clinch a WTO deal on disciplining harmful fisheries subsidies concluded several days of meetings last week with an updated set of working documents, with subsequent meetings already set for June and July. The 14-17 May meetings marked the second time that the “rules...
Global Economy

Trade Officials Weigh Impact of New Initiatives in Post-Buenos Aires Era

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...
Africa

What Way Forward for Africa at the WTO?

15 February 2018
Although expectations were comparatively low as delegations gathered in Buenos Aires last December, the outcome of the WTO’s Eleventh Ministerial Conference (MC11) still came as a disappointment to many in the trade policy community and beyond. Unable to overcome their differences, the organisation...
Agriculture

The WTO, Agriculture, and Development: A Lost Cause?

15 February 2018
Kimberly Ann Elliott
Disciplining agricultural protectionism has long been a challenge for trade negotiators. The Doha Round stumbled over it and the impasse over public stockholding continues. Should the WTO just give up on agriculture? In the early 2000s, subsidies and trade barriers in rich countries were helping...
Development

Surviving the Growing Disconnect Between Trade and Development

15 February 2018
Paul Batibonak
With the failure of the Eleventh Ministerial Conference to produce any substantial results, the WTO has reached an impasse. From an African perspective and fired with a constructive spirit, this article explores potential leads for moving forwards. In the absence of results from the last WTO...
Fisheries

WTO Fisheries Negotiators Update Draft Texts on IUU, Overfishing

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...
WTO MC11 (BUENOS AIRES 2017)

WTO Negotiations: Members Debate New Farm Trade Proposals on Domestic Support, Transparency

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...
Services

WTO Negotiators Weigh Ministerial Options for Domestic Regulation Negotiations

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...
WTO MC11 (BUENOS AIRES 2017)

WTO Conference Chair Malcorra Urges Members to Prepare for Post-Buenos Aires Work

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...
WTO MC11 (BUENOS AIRES 2017)

WTO Negotiators Consider Integrated Text on Fish Subsidies

19 October 2017
WTO negotiators now have an integrated text to consider in their efforts to craft global trade rules that would discipline harmful fisheries subsidies, in a development aimed at moving the talks into the next stage. The new text, prepared as an informal “non-paper,” was put together by various WTO...
WTO MC11 (BUENOS AIRES 2017)

WTO Agriculture Negotiators Weigh New Proposals as Buenos Aires Meet Approaches

19 October 2017
A slate of new negotiating proposals on farm subsidies and cotton reflect different views on how to balance ambitious demands with realism in the run-up to the WTO’s eleventh ministerial conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this December, trade sources have said. As negotiators prepare to meet...
WTO MC11 (BUENOS AIRES 2017)

Ministers in Marrakech Grapple with Buenos Aires Deliverables, Future WTO Agenda

12 October 2017
Trade ministers from nearly 40 WTO members concluded a two-day series of meetings in Marrakech, Morocco, this week, with Director-General Roberto Azevêdo stating afterwards that much work remains to ensure that the upcoming ministerial conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, leads to tangible...
Fisheries

WTO Fisheries Negotiators Weigh Next Steps as Clock Counts Down to Ministerial

6 October 2017
Trade negotiators are engaged in intense discussions over how to develop new disciplines on harmful fisheries subsidies, with many issues left to clarify and resolve in the two remaining months until the WTO’s ministerial conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Officials in Geneva have held two sets...
Agriculture

WTO Farm Talks Chair Maps Progress Ahead of October Mini-Ministerial

21 September 2017
The Kenyan ambassador who chairs the WTO’s negotiations on agriculture has issued a new informal paper mapping the “state of play” in the talks ahead of a ministerial-level meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco, in early October. Trade sources told Bridges that the Marrakesh meeting will be key in...
Fisheries

WTO Members Prepare for Next Chapter in Fisheries Negotiations

20 July 2017
Negotiators have been examining an influx of new and updated proposals to establish WTO disciplines on harmful fisheries subsidies over the past week, as they prepare to enter the next stage of talks for a potential deal at the organisation’s ministerial conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, later...
Fisheries

WTO Negotiators Debate Scope, Application of Potential Fish Subsidies Deal

22 June 2017
Trade negotiators continued their work last week towards crafting new WTO disciplines on fisheries subsidies, examining two proposals and looking at options regarding the use of dispute settlement rules and notification obligations in a future deal. The meetings, held at the WTO’s Geneva...
Agriculture

WTO Agriculture Negotiators Review Buenos Aires Ministerial Options

8 June 2017
The chair of the WTO agriculture negotiations, Kenyan Ambassador Stephen Karau, has suggested that farm trade talks on domestic support may need to continue beyond the organisation’s eleventh ministerial conference, scheduled to take place this December in the Argentinean capital of Buenos Aires...
Agriculture

Farm Exporting Countries Outline Agriculture Negotiating Ideas for WTO Ministerial

29 May 2017
The Cairns Group of agricultural exporting countries has called for action on farm trade issues for the WTO’s upcoming ministerial conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this December, tabling an informal paper that notes “overwhelming” support for an outcome on agricultural domestic support. The...
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Fisheries

WTO Members Examine Options for Tackling Harmful Fisheries Subsidies

26 May 2017
WTO members pressed on last week with negotiations on potential disciplines for fisheries subsidies, holding four days of intensive discussions at the organisation’s Geneva headquarters. This cluster of meetings, held from 15-18 May, aimed to address some of the substantive questions surrounding...
Fisheries

Fisheries Subsidies in the Spotlight Ahead of UN Ocean Conference

5 May 2017
Preparations are underway for the high-level UN Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14, co-hosted by the governments of Fiji and Sweden and set to coincide with World Oceans Day 2017 in June. The 5-9 June event will be the first SDG-specific conference...
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