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03.05.2016 TRADE POLICY REVIEW

Concluding remarks by the Chairperson

         The third Trade Policy Review of Malawi has provided us with a good opportunity to understand better the recent developments of its socio-economic, trade and investment policies since its last Review in 2010, as well as the challenges Malawi is now facing.

20.01.2016 Speech of the President of Kenya, H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta
Speech of the President of Kenya, H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta

20.01.2016 4th China Round Table's Opening Remarks
4th China Round Table's Opening Remarks

18.11.2013 Azevêdo continues intensive consultations as members head for the final stretch to Bali
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, on 18 November 2013, continued without a pause his intensive consultations over the weekend and the previous weeks on a Bali package consisting of agreements on trade facilitation, agriculture and development issues as members head for the final stretch to the WTO’s 9th Ministerial Conference on 3-6 December 2013

07.11.2013 Ireland donates EUR 455,000 to strengthen trade capacity of poorest members

Ireland is donating EUR 455,000 (CHF 555,300) to strengthen the trade capacity of the poorest WTO members. Director-General Roberto Azevêdo said “this contribution illustrates Ireland’s commitment to help developing countries, including the least-developed countries, make full use of the multilateral trading system”.

07.11.2013 Cotton producers seek Bali commitments, as aid levels for cotton stay healthy
The chairperson of the agriculture negotiations told members on 30 October 2013 they will have to move fast if a text on cotton is to be agreed at the 3–6 December Bali Ministerial Conference

06.11.2013 Faroe Islands files dispute against the EU over fisheries measures

The Kingdom of Denmark, in respect of the Faroe Islands, notified the WTO Secretariat, on 4 November 2013, of a request for consultations with the European Union regarding “the use of coercive economic measures in relation to Atlanto-Scandian herring”.

DG Azevedo's speech
DG Azevêdo’s address to the MC10 closing ceremony

Nairobi Ministerial Declaration
Nairobi Ministerial Declaration
Adopted on 19 December 2015 : WT/MIN(15)/DEC

Ninth WTO Ministerial Conference
The Ninth Ministerial Conference will be held in Bali, Indonesia, from 3 to 6 December 2013

Cotton producers seek Bali commitments, as aid levels for cotton stay healthy

The chairperson of the agriculture negotiations told members on 30 October 2013 they will have to move fast if a text on cotton is to be agreed at the 3–6 December Bali Ministerial Conference

Ireland donates EUR 455,000 to strengthen trade capacity of poorest members

Ireland is donating EUR 455,000 (CHF 555,300) to strengthen the trade capacity of the poorest WTO members. Director-General Roberto Azevêdo said “this contribution illustrates Ireland’s commitment to help developing countries, including the least-developed countries, make full use of the multilateral trading system”.


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Azevêdo continues intensive consultations as members head for the final stretch to Bali

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, on 18 November 2013, continued without a pause his intensive consultations over the weekend and the previous weeks on a Bali package consisting of agreements on trade facilitation, agriculture and development issues as members head for the final stretch to the WTO’s 9th Ministerial Conference on 3-6 December 2013.

DG Azevêdo is due to report to the final General Council meeting before Bali — on 21 November — on progress in his consultations.

WTO ambassadors resumed consultations on Section II of a draft agreement on trade facilitation. This section provides the basis for special and differential treatment and for technical assistance and capacity building needed for the implementation of the agreement.

In agriculture, members are focusing on proposals about reducing export subsidies and related policies known collectively as “export competition”, reducing the chances that the methods used to share out a particular type of quota among traders become trade barriers in their own right, on how to deal with developing countries’ food stockholding for food security when the purchases could distort trade, on adding a number of environmental and development services to the list of programmes considered not to distort trade and therefore allowed without limit, and on cotton produced by least-developed countries (LDCs).

On development, members have agreed proposals by LDCs on preferential rules of origin and on operationalization of the services waiver for them. Work continues on duty-free, quota free treatment for LDCs. Members are also consulting on a monitoring mechanism for special and differential treatment for developing countries under WTO agreements.

DG Azevêdo has stressed that the negotiations for a Bali package must be concluded in Geneva before the Ministerial Conference. He told the Trade Negotiations Committee on 12 November that “one of the clearest messages from my consultations with members is that Bali must not be a negotiating conference”.