News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
There was much less of a void at or around the WTO this week. Here a round-up of developments around the world trade instirution this week. Today trade ministers are holding their annual Swiss-hosted informal WTO ministerial not, as usual, on the sidelines of Davos but online.
Borderlex will be in recess as of tomorrow (22 December) for about a fortnight due to the festive season. So we are fast-forwarding our usual Friday Week in Brussels column for you…
The United States has surprised many WTO watchers by deciding to accept the findings of a dispute settlement panel ruling in a case brought by the EU over US countervailing duties on Spanish olives – despite the fact that Washington essentially lost the case. At Monday’s (20 December) meeting of …
India has made history at the World Trade Organization by being the first member country to be found guilty of breaching its subsidy notification obligations under the organisation’s Agreement on Agriculture.
It’s been quite the day for World Trade Organization legal disputes. By Chris Horseman and Iana Dreyer.
Almost ten years after rules on salmonella in poultry meat were amended in the European Union, Brazil is filing for consultations at the dispute settlement body of the World Trade Organization in Geneva over what it sees as discriminatory treatment of its processed poultry meat.
United States trade chief Katherine Tai set out her first fully articulated views on the WTO since taking office last spring at a speech hosted by the Graduate Institute in Geneva on Thursday (14 October 2021). Tai’s speech indicated the United States is committed to achieving agreements on fisheries subsidies …
A little bit of movement here, a little bit of movement there. That’s the story at the WTO this week. By Iana Dreyer and Rob Francis.
The WTO’s Director General Ngozi Okonjo Iweala thinks some form of outcome on agriculture negotiations will be necessary at the coming 12th ministerial meeting. So negotiators are getting on to it! Also: the WTO’s dispute settlement body is innovating – if a panel report on a US safeguard on photovoltaic …
Here a new edition of our WTO Corner blog. It’s been a while…!
