Insights and Stories on WTO

Canada hails new WTO chief

Feb. 22, 2021 at 8:07 pm CST

Canada is lending its support to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) choice for its new director general. Ngorzi Okonjo-Iweala was chosen Feb. 15 by WTO members as the international trade body’s new head, making her the first woman and the first African to serve in the role. Mary Ng, Canada’s […]

Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala makes history as new head of WTO

Feb. 15, 2021 at 10:47 pm CST

By Andrea Shalal emma-farge

Canada consulting at home toward Indonesia trade deal

Jan. 14, 2021 at 7:38 pm CST

By D.C. Fraser

Ban on food aid restrictions blocked at WTO

Dec. 21, 2020 at 2:20 am CST

By emma-farge

Australia to appeal at WTO over China’s barley tariffs

Dec. 16, 2020 at 11:37 am CST

By Colin Packham

Irritated trade partners push back on China’s coronavirus food tests

Nov. 17, 2020 at 9:09 pm CST

Beijing/Geneva | Reuters — Major food-producing countries are growing increasingly frustrated with China’s scrutiny of imported products and are calling on it to stop aggressive testing for the coronavirus, which some say is tantamount to a trade restriction. China says it has found the virus on the packaging of products […]

By Dominique Patton emma-farge

G20 ag ministers say COVID-19 measures shouldn’t disrupt food supply

Apr. 21, 2020 at 5:47 pm CDT

Dubai | Reuters — Agriculture and food ministers from the Group of 20 (G20) countries agreed at a virtual meeting on Tuesday that emergency measures to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus must not upend global food supply chains. Their extraordinary meeting came as coronavirus lockdowns across the world […]

By Reuters

Canada, EU, China, others agree on temporary fix to WTO crisis

Jan. 25, 2020 at 11:41 am CST

Brussels/Davos | Reuters — Canada, the European Union, China and 14 other World Trade Organization members agreed on Friday to create a temporary mechanism to settle trade disputes after U.S. action rendered the WTO incapable last month of acting as the umpire of global trade. The Canadian government and the […]

By Luke Baker philip-blenkinsop

U.S. seals demise of WTO appeals bench, trade officials say

Dec. 9, 2019 at 2:53 pm CST

Geneva | Reuters — The fate of the World Trade Organization’s top court was effectively sealed on Monday after the United States said it would not back a proposal to allow it to continue, trade officials said, although the WTO chief vowed to find a solution. The Trump administration has […]

By stephanie-nebehay

WTO tussles over hard stop or phase-out of appeals system

Dec. 3, 2019 at 5:09 pm CST

Geneva | Reuters — The World Trade Organization (WTO) battled on Tuesday over whether to bring its Appellate Body to an abrupt halt or allow its adjudicators to settle a handful of pending cases, according to trade officials present at a meeting on the subject. The Trump administration has for […]

By Reuters

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