In 🇨🇭, from all over. Mainly trade. Journalist. WTO Secretariat 1996-2015. Usual disclaimers. Member: http://fmg-geneva.org.
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Peter Ungphakorn
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The opening paragraphs of this have been updated to include the yesterday's 12th failure. Only India was left blocking, but that was enough. What will the participants try next? They haven't said yet.
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I guess it's too soon for the 129 participants in the Investment Facilitation plurilateral agreement to say what they intend to do next
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Meanwhile more details are emerging on how the e-commerce plurilateral group's "interim arrangements" will work. It’ll be outside the WTO, imitating WTO dispute settlement and committee work, with nothing revealed on resources or funding. Also updated
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"Talks would now continue in Geneva after the impasse on prolonging the moratorium, said the WTO conference chair... In what is seen as a test for the WTO’s relevance... diplomats said ministers got stuck on extending the moratorium beyond more than two years following objections from Brazil."
Last night's much delayed conclusion to the Yaoundé Ministerial Conference. Deadlock over how long to extend the moratorium on collecting duties on digital trade (which lapses) and work programmes on WTO reform and agriculture mean only a few décisions were taken. Work continues in Geneva.
Brand new, decades old, or in between? Exclusive or applying to all members? Proper negotiations or just talk? Which is which, and what are the subjects?
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The 129 WTO members participating in the Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement (IFDA) issued a joint ministerial declaration on 29 March at the end of the 14th Ministerial Conference in Ya...
E-commerce duties moratorium expires as WTO talks run out of time, officials say reut.rs/411cLQ0
Indonesia has circulated a paper at the WTO's Yaoundé Ministerial Conference repeating its claim that the WTO Fisheries Subsidies negotiations (Fish 2) violate the UN Law of the Sea.
Indonesia is one of a handful blocking the 2025 draft for a Fish 2 agreement.
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... "We are a frontline State that has paid the price of IUUF [illegal, unreported and unregulated Fishing]—and acted decisively against it.
"And we will continue to uphold UNCLOS 1982 as the foundation of ocean governance."
Almost all other members are willing to accept the 2025 draft.
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The WTO countries are negotiating an extension to a moratorium on customs duties for electronic transmissions such as digital downloads.
For two years now, three quarters of WTO members have found consensus blocked on adding their deal to WTO rules even though non-participants would be free riders
A global e-commerce moratorium on duties on digital downloads and streaming has expired, a senior World Trade Organization official said on Monday.
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Indonesia is the world's second largest sea fishing nation. It says:
"We are not seeking policy space to subsidize irresponsibly.
"We are defending the rule of law in the oceans.
"We are a frontline State that has paid the price of IUUF ...
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The WTO's 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14) concluded early 30 March with ministers adopting a number of decisions as well as making a commitment to continue work in Geneva on key outstanding issues.
