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09/20/2023

China Appealed WTO Panel Report in China - Additional Duties (US). China asserts that measures with “constituent features of safeguards measures” should not be permitted to escape WTO safeguards disciplines https://bit.ly/3t7cPzE via

China has opted to appeal certain issues of law covered in the panel report in China – Additional Duties (US) (DS558) and legal interpretations developed by the Panel. Notification of China’s appeal was published by the ...

06/08/2022

In preparation for the upcoming 12th WTO Ministerial Conference in Geneva on 12-15 June, WTO Members have agreed on the need to close the remaining gaps on the following issues:
- fisheries subsidies;
- agriculture;
- the WTO response to the pandemic, including the waiver to the TRIPS Agreement;
- WTO reform;
- development and least-developed country issues.

Source: https://bit.ly/39cbv5g

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06/07/2022

WTO Trade Policy Review of the USA is scheduled for 14 and 16 December 2022. TPR of Brazil will take place on 23 and 25 November. TPR of Mexico - 5 and 7 October.
TPRs for the remainder of 2022: https://bit.ly/3mFPm2p

06/02/2022

G7 creates a formal “Climate Club” for “likeminded people and partners”

Openness and cooperation are declared to be the main features of the Club. How open will it be in practice and on the basis of what rules and towards what specific goals will it operate? https://bit.ly/3PY2rkP

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05/26/2022

Brazil: the WTO Ministerial Conference should meet every year

Brazil has proposed to have more frequent meetings of the WTO Ministerial Conference, the highest decision-making body of the WTO. The draft decision, proposed by Brazil on 25 May 2022, states that after the 12th Ministerial Conference, which will take place on 12-25 June 2022 in Geneva, “the Ministerial Conference shall meet once every year” with the next meeting in 2023.
What are reasons and potential benefits for this change?
Continue reading: https://bit.ly/3LPBTio

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05/23/2022

Members of European Parliament support an ambitious CBAM

As expected by many observers, an ambitious approach in the design and implementation of the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) was agreed by the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Security of the European Parliament on 17 of May 2022.

Based on the text of the draft regulation on CBAM and the rapporteur’s comments, CBAM is designed to: (i) “incentivise” third countries to accept the EU’s approach, standards and goals, and adapt to the EU’s requirements; (ii) prevent the risk of so-called “carbon leakage”; and (iii) prevent “distortive unfair competition” among products originating in the EU and third countries.

Continue reading: https://bit.ly/3MKY0bi.

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05/20/2022

In Canada small and medium-sized enterprises lead recovery from the pandemic in the number of traders

The vast majority (98.8%) of traders in 2021 were , although they accounted for less than half (45.9%) of Canada's total merchandise trade value. https://bit.ly/3luiTv4

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05/19/2022

Global insecurity is no reason to divest from the WTO https://www.ft.com/content/bb1fab70-02e0-4392-8fa5-e88c03398d44

Trade agreements should expand their scope, as they have done in recent years, to allow for provisions on , , , and other issues.

05/16/2022

Do you know that micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are the majority of business in every economy?

MSMEs amount to 95% of business globally and 60% of global employment. Unfortunately, MSMEs were adversely impacted by lockdowns and other measures implemented by governments due to COVID-19. How can policy makers help MSMEs? Continue reading: https://bit.ly/3ljOxvn

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05/12/2022

Who are the largest users of countervailing duty investigations?

From 1995 to 2020, the USA (46%), the EU (14%) and Canada (12%) initiated the largest numbers of countervailing duty investigations. They account for about 85% of applied countervailing duties in recent years. Since 2017, however, China and, especially, Brazil, India, and Turkey, have become more active in initiating antidumping and countervailing investigations. Extract from the report: https://bit.ly/Report-Subsidies

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05/11/2022

Deputy Director-General Angela Ellard on WTO reform:

"We must revamp the three functions of the WTO: negotiations, monitoring, and dispute settlement. Doing so will improve the ability of the WTO to meet the needs of our Members. It will send a message that working within rules and institutions is still possible and, in fact, far better than the alternative".
Full text of her remarks for parliamentarians https://bit.ly/3ssgAgd

05/10/2022

Subsidies may be “good”, “bad” and “ugly”

Experts consider that broad-based cooperation on subsidies is needed to bring greater transparency, openness, and predictability to global trade. The report “Subsidies, Trade and International Cooperation”, prepared by staff teams from the IMF, OECD, World Bank Group and the WTO, aims to begin a discussion within the international community on how to develop and implement this agenda.

The report: https://bit.ly/Report-Subsidies