News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, April 25, 2025
US Senator Chris Murphy published a piece in the Financial Times today arguing that the US must continue on its path of retreating from the recently concluded e-commerce agreement at the World Trade Organization, which Washington stopped supporting. This is a good moment to set the record straight on this …
The recently concluded negotiations on an agreement on digital trade rules by more than 80 members of the World Trade Organization have received hardly any notice in international business media. Some in the know believe the text is significant and needs to be adopted, despite its many shortcomings and the …
Think tankers have been busy, with gender, investment and digital overarching themes. A selection of the latest work by international trade policy think tanks by Maia Wilson, with some input from Iana Dreyer.
The strictly ‘multilateral’ dimension of the World Trade Organization seems to be in a rut, with the postponement of the 12th ministerial conference having thrown negotiations on issues such as fish subsidies or agriculture into further uncertainty. But, postponement or not, WTO crisis or not, a large subset of members …
You don’t need a ministerial conference to take important decisions at the World Trade Organization. Despite the 12th ministerial conference not happening this week as planned there has been movement in quite a few areas this week.
Negotiations towards a plurilateral agreement on e-commerce at the World Trade Organization moved another small step forward on Monday (13 September). Parties found a definitive settlement on two more sub-chapters in the area of ‘open government data’ and ‘online consumer protection’. It remains unclear what type of deliverable negotiators will …
One things needs to be said : it is busy in around the World Trade Organization again. Discussions are generally now over substance and the destructive dynamics at play in the Trump era are much less visible – although it is not the US alone in wielding the zero-sum veto game. …
The United States have announced they would join the ongoing Services Domestic Regulations plurilateral negotiations at the World Trade Organization.
Nigeria has tabled language in ongoing WTO e-commerce agreement talks that seeks to exempt poor countries from free data flow obligations.
An overview of notable recent developments at the World Trade Organization focusing on fish subsidy talks, e-commerce negotiations and trade and health.
