WTO: Still no fix for the appellate body
China, the world’s second-largest economy, still claims exemptions as an ‘emerging economy’ 21 years after it joined the organization, and the US wants this status amended.
MC12
Is America (finally) back in Geneva?
The WTO's 12th ministerial conference (MC12) last week afforded a provisional rescue to the institution, greeted by a global and collective sigh of relief. But the ability of the WTO to pull itself out of paralysis was not the only significant outcome of MC12. Another equally meaningful development
#102 The G|O Briefing, June 23, 2022
Fighting for better working conditions for the UN’s outside workforce - WTO: Yes it can!
#101 The G|O Briefing, June 16, 2022
International Organizations are getting defensive — How to engage with China?
Will the WTO be able to protect the poorest from a looming global food crisis?
The agricultural debate will take center stage at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) June Ministerial conference (MC12), and its dynamics will be shaped, in form but above all in substance, by the war in Ukraine.
Since the WTO operates by consensus, few trade experts and WTO watchers here expect
#97 The G|O Briefing, May 12, 2022
New accusations about Geneva's bogus 'universities' - Can the WTO help avert a catastrophic global food crisis?
At the World Trade Organization, a war–both inside and out
The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) 625-person-strong secretariat is the brain of the organization. It has no decision-making powers, its main duties being to supply impartial technical and professional support to WTO members. Reforming it was never going to be an easy task, but immediately after her nomination in March
#95 The G|O Briefing, April 28, 2022
G|O investigation: students denounce worthless diplomas from some of Geneva's private "universities" — WTO Secretariat reform still contentious
On the shores of Lake Geneva, the battle to revitalize the WTO continues
In September 1999, on his very first day on the job, Mike Moore, the newly elected D-G of the World Trade Organization (WTO) made a pitch before the assembled Geneva press corps: “Every member of the WTO, and outside, wants China to sit at the table as she should. China