Posts Tagged ‘#WTO’
Promoting Sustainability in the Developing World and the WTO’s 2023 Public Forum
The World Trade Organization, the World Bank Group and the World Economic Forum on 20 April launched “Action on Climate and Trade” (ACT), a new initiative that aims to help…
Read MoreTradeExperettes is examining the gender impact of the WTO´s moratorium on the imposition of customs duties on electronic transmissions.
TradeExperettes, is a network of women trade experts from around the world. It notes that while research has been done on the economic and broader social impact of the moratorium, this…
Read MoreWTO Progresses with its Ecommerce Work
The WTO has been negotiating at its JSI committee on ecommerce issues for a number of years, as readers of this Newsletter will be aware. Recently the committee has been…
Read MoreUN and WTO Agree That 2023 Will See a Slump in the Global Economy – But The AfDBank is Optimistic for Africa
A series of severe and mutually reinforcing shocks — the COVID pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine and resulting food and energy crises, surging inflation, debt tightening, as well as the climate emergency…
Read MoreTrade in Services Policy in Africa, New Work by the WTO and World Bank
Services are often overlooked in trade negotiations, partly because they are amorphous in character, unlike goods. Yet Africa is increasingly exporting its services within the continent and globally. Examples are in music…
Read MoreTrade Figures – All Good News from the WTO
Trade growth is likely to slow in the closing months of 2022 and into 2023, according to the latest WTO Goods Trade Barometer released on 28 November, as the global…
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WTO’s JSI Continues Its Work on Ecommerce The World Trade Organisation’s eCommerce Committee (JSI – don’t you love acronyms, especially when they don’t relate to the subject at hand!) plans…
Read MoreWTO Postpones its End of Year Ministerial Conference
The 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) was due to start on 30 November and run until 3 December the General Council however agreed to postpone the Conference after the Swiss imposed…
Read MoreThe World Trade Organisation Annual Public Form
The WTO held its annual Public Forum from 28 Sept to 1 Oct. EFA spoke as a panelist at DigitalEurope’s event on moving out of the COVID economic slow down…
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