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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
The Global Value Chain (GVC) Development Report 2023 explores approaches to build resilient and sustainable GVCs. It provides an overview of the most recent trends in GVCs, assesses the effects of ...
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 ...
In her opening remarks, DG Okonjo-Iweala stressed that — already in 1994 — the TRIPS Agreement articulated the compelling idea that the intellectual property (IP) system exists to promote the mutual ...
On the last day of this round of negotiations, the co-convenors shared their thoughts on future timelines, which aim for the conclusion of the negotiations by the European summer. Ambassador James ...
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 ...