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Celebrating World Cotton Day: an opportunity to recognize the global importance of cotton

DG Okonjo-Iweala on World Cotton Day: Cotton is crucial for sustainable development —

Public Forum discusses how to help small businesses become more resilient —

Members discuss COVID-19, climate change, digital issues at review of standards agreement —

   A total of EUR 500,000 (approximately CHF 550,000) will go to  the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) to support developing countries and LDCs in complying with international food safety, animal and plant health standards so as to promote safe trade. The objective is to have these countries play a more active role in agricultural trade. A contribution of EUR 25,000 (over CHF 27,000) will finance the participation of LDC trade officials in the 12th WTO Ministerial Confe...

MAIN POINTS Heads of International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group, World Health Organization, World Trade Organization issue extraordinary call for financing actions by government leaders to accelerate end to COVID-19 pandemic. IMF, WB, WHO, WTO principals call for $50 billion investment to generate $9 trillion in global economic returns by 2025 and boost manufacturing capacity, supply, trade flows and the equitable distribution of diagnostics, oxygen, trea...

RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS: WORKING PAPERS “Agricultural products” and “fishery products” in the GATT and WTO: a history of relevant discussions on product scope during negotiations The WTO Agreement on Agriculture applies to those “agricultural products” as defined in its Annex 1. This definition expressly excludes “fish and fish products” from the scope of application of the Agreement. In light of this exclusion, the paper is intended to provide a historical account of ...

This TRADE TOPICS page will take you to information available on the WTO website, on issues handled by the WTO’s councils and committees, and its trade agreements

Developments in the sector   In recent decades, postal services have undergone radical changes — from a regulatory, operational and technological perspective — throughout the world. Technological changes have confronted operators with new forms of competition from other communication services (e.g. e-mails), but also presented new opportunities, e.g. the use of technology in the just-in-time shipment of goods by express delivery companies. This is a rapidly growing area which is playing ...