WTO: Decision Time on TRIPs, e-Commerce Moratorium

Posted 12/8/23

The fate of two mandated decisions from last year’s World Trade Organization

12th ministerial conference on the extension of the TRIPS Agreement to cover COVID-19 diagnostics and therapeutics and the termination of the 1998 electronic commerce moratorium will dominate the proceedings when the General Council meets on December 14-15.

Failure to reach decisions as per the MC12 mandates at this week's GC meeting could cast a dark shadow on the MC13 meeting that is going to start in Abu Dhabi on February 26, said people familiar with the developments.

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