April meeting of the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), WTO members continued their ...

The WTO Secretariat and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Tbilisi, Georgia, on 1 ...

May, WTO members were updated on the progress made in improving its functioning and advancing WTO reform. Members also ...

Ambassador Alparslan Acarsoy of Türkiye, the Chair of the WTO agriculture negotiations, facilitated the discussion on the ...

The Information Technology Agreement (ITA) was concluded by 29 participants at the Singapore Ministerial Conference in December 1996. Since then, the number of participants has grown to 82, ...

Intellectual property rights are the rights given to persons over the creations of their minds. They usually give the creator an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for a certain period ...

Geopolitical conflicts have increasingly been a driver of trade policy. We study the potential effects of global and persistent geopolitical conflicts on trade, technological innovation, and economic ...

DG Okonjo-Iweala said: “I warmly welcome Peru's formal acceptance of the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies. Peru's status as one of the leading marine fishing producers is a strong signal of the ...

DDG Ellard said: “I warmly welcome Cambodia's formal acceptance of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies. By disciplining subsidies worldwide to harmful fishing, the Agreement will strongly benefit ...

Registration is now open for the 2024 Aid for Trade Global Review, to be held from 26 to 28 June at the WTO's headquarters in ...

The Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMS) recognizes that certain investment measures can restrict and distort trade. It states that WTO members may not apply any measure that ...

The participation of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in international trade has remained limited for numerous reasons. These include lack of relevant skills, lack of knowledge about ...