| Members and partner organizations look into future priorities for Aid for Trade | | WTO members, international financial institutions and observer organisations discussed the future direction of the Aid for Trade initiative and exchanged information on recent activities at a session of the Committee on Trade and Development on 11 October. A workshop organized by the Committee on 10 October looked at how Aid for Trade can support economic diversification and sustainable development. | | Lees verder |
| Plastics Dialogue advances on ministerial mandate to seek outcomes by MC13 | | Participants in the Dialogue on Plastics Pollution and Environmentally Sustainable Plastics Trade met for their third plenary meeting on 11 October and reported progress on working towards "concrete, effective and pragmatic outcomes" for the WTO's 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) as mandated by their ministers. They also welcomed Mexico, Samoa and Mauritius as new co-sponsors of the initiative. | | Lees verder |
| Trade Policy Review: Djibouti | | The third review of the trade policies and practices of Djibouti takes place on 12 and 14 October 2022. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a report by the Government of Djibouti. | | Lees verder |
| WHO, WIPO, WTO to hold workshop on innovation and access to COVID-19 diagnostics | | The World Health Organization (WHO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the WTO will hold on 28 October a joint virtual workshop on "Innovation and access to diagnostics for COVID-19 and beyond". The event will be the third in the series of trilateral workshops which the Directors-General of the WHO, WIPO and the WTO have agreed to organize within the existing collaboration framework. | | Lees verder |
| DDG González: "More cooperation on digital will create trade opportunities, reduce costs" | | It has become increasingly clear that the absence of global approaches to digital trade is leading to uncertainty and higher costs for businesses and consumers, DDG González said at a roundtable organized by the Business Council for International Understanding and Google on 12 October. She called for more international cooperation to ensure that digitalization creates new trade opportunities, reduces costs and makes trade processes faster and easier for the benefit of all countries. | | Lees verder |
| WTO, IFC launch joint publication on trade finance in West Africa | | A joint publication on "Trade Finance in West Africa" was launched by Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and International Finance Corporation (IFC) Managing Director Makhtar Diop on 12 October in Washington DC. Using the results of a survey of banks in the four largest economies of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) — Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal — the publication assesses the shortfall in trade finance in these countries. It also outlines ways of removing obstacles to credit facilities and of unleashing the trade potential of the region. | | Lees verder |
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