The secretariat of the World Trade Organization unveiled the 30-year-institution’s first-ever strategy, which aims to give direction to its activities amidst growing concerns about the future and finances of the institution.
WTO crisis and reform
WTO at 30: Director-general calls for national security exception fix
Speaking at an event hosted by the think tank Peterson Institute in Washington, the World Trade Organization’s director-general Ngozi Okonjo Iweala called on members of the institution to make efforts to agree on how to handle national security in a time of growing geopolitical frictions. The leader of the WTO …
THINK TANK: An alternative trading system, EVs, US renewables tariffs
Here is a roundup of what trade think tanks have been up to this week.
INTERVIEW – Wolff: I am in the just-do-it school
Borderlex sat down with Alan Wolff to discuss his new book Revitalizing the World Trading System.
THINK TANK: Subsidies wars and supply chain diversification efforts
Preventing a subsidies war, export restrictions, non-economic objectives, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and reducing critical dependencies have all been in the spotlight for international think tanks. Here are some highlights from the last fortnight, where heavy-hitters have chimed into today’s existential debates on the future of the trading system.
Blog: Climate change, migration and trade policy – how to enable sustainable development
Borderlex hosted a panel discussion at the World Trade Organization’s Public Forum in Geneva on ‘How trade policy can make (climate) migration work’. Below you will find some key take-aways from this session, including quickly actionable policy recommendations. ***
Comment: As WTO panels slap down Trump-era tariffs, trumpian trade policy prevails
The summer 2023 capped off half a decade of a World Trade Organization wrangling with the rule-book’s national security exception. The process has landed the global trading order in a very uncomfortable place. It’s hard to see a way out unless the system accepts Washington’s zero-sum terms.
THINK TANK: EU strategic technologies, EU-GCC energy trade pact, WTO again
This week’s think tank publication highlights include another set of new pieces by the European Council on Foreign Relations and a think piece from the Peterson Economics for International Trade.
WTO Corner: Another panel that does not go to the MPIA
Plans by Japan and China to go to arbitration under the alternative appeals mechanism MPIA in the World Trade Organization, announced last March, were quietly shelved as the panel report on a steel anti-dumping case brought by Tokyo was simply published on Monday.
Blog: OECD looks to Indo-Pacific
It’s that time of the year when the OECD, the ‘rich-world think tank’ and occasional international treaty negotiation forum hosts its ministers in Paris. Overarching themes this year: supply chain resilience, sustainability, trade multilateralism Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific.
