WTO members welcomed at a meeting of the Committee on Trade and Development on 20 June the decision taken by the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) to reinvigorate activities under the Work Programme on E-Commerce, with the aim of increasing the participation of developing countries and...
Uzbekistan stressed its commitment to work together with WTO members to make rapid progress in its WTO accession process. At the 5th Working Party meeting on the Accession of Uzbekistan on 21 June, members commended Uzbekistan's readiness to advance the negotiations and to maintain the momentum...
WTO members welcomed the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Declaration on new challenges affecting food safety and animal and plant health adopted by ministers at the 12th Ministerial Conference in Geneva held on 12-17 June. At the opening of the meeting of the SPS Committee on 22 June, delegations...
World services trade continued to grow into the second quarter of 2022, indicating resilience to the conflict in Ukraine according to the WTO's Services Trade Barometer, released on 23 June 2022. The latest reading of 105.5 is firmly above the previous reading of 102.5 in September 2021 and...
The WTO is launching today (23 June) the Trade Connectivity Heatmap, a new visualisation tool designed to give a broad overview of the trade relationships between different economies across different product categories, with the possibility of honing in on data for bilateral product-by-product...
On 24 June, Deputy Director-General Angela Ellard delivered a keynote speech to the 2021-2022 Advanced Master Programmes of the University of Berne's World Trade Institute on the role of multilateralism in a world of polycrisis. In her speech, DDG Ellard addressed the role of the WTO and...
The WTO has published on the occasion of Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises Day (27 June) three research papers on the participation of small businesses in international trade and on climate change policies that could help them engage in sustainable practices.
In her remarks at the Second Annual Global Trade Week 2022, hosted by Economist Impact on 27 June, Deputy Director-General Anabel González discussed the growing role of services trade in the global economy. She called on WTO members to step up cooperation "to make services trade a driver of poverty...
On the occasion of MSMEs Day (27 June), a virtual event was held to launch the 2022 edition of the Small Business Champions Initiative under the theme "Helping small businesses transition to a sustainable economy". Jointly organized by the Informal Working Group on Micro, Small and Medium-sized...
The 2021 Annual Report of the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF), released on 28 June, highlights how the EIF partnership between least-developed countries (LDCs), partner agencies and donors is helping beneficiary countries use trade to enhance their development prospects. The report presents...
