MC 13 Fails on Food and Fisheries; e-Commerce & TRIPS

Posted 3/2/24

The World Trade Organization’s 13th ministerial conference failed to deliver outcomes in agriculture, particularly the permanent solution for public stockholding programs for food security and domestic support work program, as well as on fisheries subsidies for addressing overcapacity and overfishing caused by large-scale subsidizers depleting global fish stocks.

Trade ministers, however, approved the extension of the e-commerce moratorium and some improvements in the special and differential treatment provisions, including for countries graduating from their current least-developed country status, our correspondent writes.

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