Posts Tagged ‘#WTO’
Ecommerce Product Safety – WTO starts to look at solutions.
At meetings of the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) on 6 – 10 Nov, WTO members discussed challenges in ensuring online-purchased goods conform with safety and quality standards.…
Read MoreWTO’s Annual Public Forum
This year’s WTO Public Forum, entitled “It is Time for Action”, will feature 131 sessions from 12-15 September. Sessions are organized by WTO member governments, businesses, NGOs, academia and international…
Read MoreWTO Holds Hearing on the Effects of COVID on National Transport: EFSA Represents SA
The DTIC kindly invited EFSA to make a presentation on behalf of SA to the WTO Council of Trade on 13 June to address the impact of the Pandemic on…
Read MoreTradeExperettes webinar on the WTO Ecommerce Moratorium and Women, and the New Markets Lab Survey
The Chair of EFSA’s Legal Committee, Tendi Hlatshwayo of Ozow, represented us at the second TradeExperettes webinar on the “WTO Ecommerce Moratorium and Women”. The WTO moratorium refers to customs…
Read MoreWTO Issues its Annual World Tariff Profiles
On 6 July the WTO issued the 2023 edition of “World Tariff Profiles”, an annual publication providing comprehensive information on tariffs imposed on imports by over 170 countries and customs…
Read MoreThe WTO Reinforces its Interest in Ecommerce
The WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said at a workshop held at the WTO in June that the international community have a collective responsibility to help members harness the full potential…
Read MoreThe WTO’s Thematic Session on Regulatory Cooperation between Members on Cybersecurity, 20 June
The DTIC approached EFSA for assistance to find a South African expert to represent SA at this session, which provided member states with an opportunity to explore the role of…
Read MorePromoting 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…
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