Trying to Narrow WTO MC13 Agenda

Posted 7/21/23

World Trade Organization members echoed their differences over the priority issues to be taken up at the upcoming senior officials meetings, with a majority of members coalescing around the second wave negotiations of the fisheries subsidies agreement, reform of the dispute settlement system – including WTO reform and agriculture, WTD has learned.

WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told a meeting of the Trade Negotiations Committee that members should make use of the October 23-24 senior officials meeting to “narrow down realistic deliverables” for agreement at the WTO’s 13th Ministerial Conference in early 2024.

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