Dmitry Grozoubinksi on what comes next in the nomination process for the World Trade Organization’s top job. We are now off to the races, but the finishing line is still far away…
Author: Dmitry Grozoubinski
What do you need to know: The WTO Director-General’s Resignation
The World Trade Organization’s Director General, Roberto Azevêdo announced his resignation effective 31 August of this year. His tenure will end three years into his second four year term which was otherwise due to expire in 2021.
WTO cancels its ministerial conference: now what?
The 12th World Trade Organization ministerial conference has been cancelled at the request of the Kazakhstan hosts, due to the Corona virus. So what comes next?
WTO: The Most Important Negotiation You’ve Never Heard Of
WTO members – 59 of them including the European Union and China – met this week for a round on negotiations to make applying for licenses and occupational certifications abroad simpler and more transparent, in a process you may never have heard of. Domestic Regulation in Services, one of the …
What you need to know: A potential US exit from the Government Procurement Agreement
The WTO’s General Council meets this week. It will hear US gripes about the world trade body and receive proposals to improve it. One of the ‘solutions’ Washington has envisaged for itself is to withdraw from the institution’s Government Procurement Agreement. What would this mean in practice?
US tariffs: unbound
As ‘green room’ meetings take place in Geneva this week to – likely unsuccessfully – secure progress on the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body crisis, the US administration’s ongoing project to give trade wonks an aneurism may be about to enter a new chapter: the US is considering raising their …
WTO Reform: What can Azevêdo achieve in Washington?
At Davos in January 2020, US President Donald Trump announced that he and the WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo would meet to discuss the reform of the world trade institution. Credit: White House.President Trump announced at Davos last month that he and Director-General Roberto Azevêdo were deep in talks about reforming …
WTO Investment Facilitation talks – what they are all about
More than 70 WTO Members will spend the next five months trying to negotiate new rules on how governments regulate investment and treat investors in their countries as part of the ‘Structured Discussions on Investment Facilitation’. The rules they aim to agree primarily focus on predictability, transparency, simplicity and equity …
WTO Appellate Body loses quorum: what happens next?
In his first in what will hopefully become a long series of blogs for Borderlex Dmitry Grozoubinski takes a relentlessly pragmatic look at the World Trade Organization and the world trading system with one question in mind: “You’re busy, what do you need to know?”
