Countries are making progress on reforming the World Trade Organization (WTO) but will fall short of clinching a deal at a major meeting early next year, the ambassador leading the talks said in a confidential document.
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WTO chair rules out reform deal at next major meeting, document shows
China hits Canada with anti-dumping probe on canola imports in response to EV tariffs
China plans to start an anti-dumping investigation into canola imports from Canada due to tariffs Canada had placed on China's electric vehicle imports.
China hits Canada with anti-dumping probe on canola imports in response to EV tariffs
Beijing | Reuters – China said on Tuesday it plans to start an anti-dumping investigation into canola imports from Canada, after Ottawa moved to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, lifting prices of domestic rapeseed oil futures to a one-month peak. Canada has followed the lead of the United States and European Union, and announced
Opinion: WTO slides into a vacuum, EU slides into nationalism
While farmers are protesting, the WTO continues to twiddle its thumbs
On March 2, the 13th World Trade Organization ministerial ended the same way most previous ministerial gatherings have. Member ministers discussed the burning need to change two key international trade rules (on ag trade and overfishing), and then everyone went home without changing any key international trade rules. This time around, the actionless talkfest carried
Red Sea crisis cutting farm exports from Ukraine, minister says
Wheat shipments via Suez plunge amid Red Sea attacks: WTO
The situation in the Red Sea has led to a slowdown in Ukrainian agricultural exports in January, agriculture minister Mykola Solsky said on Thursday.
Farm trade dispute creates rift between Ukraine and its allies
Ukraine sues three EU member states at WTO
Brussels/Kyiv | Reuters — A dispute over agricultural trade created a rift on Monday between Ukraine and some of its strongest allies in the European Union after three member states imposed unilateral measures to restrict imports from the war-torn country. Poland, Slovakia and Hungary announced restrictions on imports on Friday after the European Commission decided
Australia, China not home free on trade relations
Australia’s minister for trade and tourism, Don Farrell, told China’s commerce minister, Wang Wentao, that “we still have some way to go to establish usual trade across the board,” at a meeting in Beijing May 5. In his opening remarks at the 16th Joint Ministerial Economic Commission, Farrell also told Wang that his country “can
U.S. wants WTO dispute system fixed by 2024
Appeals body frozen since Trump era; Washington 'very committed' to reform
Geneva | Reuters — The United States is entering a third phase of talks with countries to reform the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) hobbled trade dispute arbitration system and aims for it to be “fully functioning” by the end of 2024, the U.S. ambassador to the WTO told Reuters on Thursday. The WTO’s appeals bench,
Canada, China agree to suspend WTO canola dispute
Lifting of canola ban renders case moot
Berlin | Reuters — Canada and China have agreed to suspend proceedings against Chinese measures affecting the importation of Canadian canola seed, according to a World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint on Thursday. The WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) panel suspended its work as of Tuesday, the complaint said. Work can be suspended at any time
Comment: WTO steps back from the brink
But repairing long-standing problems still requires solid efforts
After decades of conflict that has neutered its work, the World Trade Organization looks to be back in business. Its highest decision-making body – a conference of ministers from the organization’s 164 member nations – has just met for the first time since 2017. None of what the ministerial conference (dubbed MC12 due to being
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