Ministers from 30 WTO members gave broad backing to the plan in talks in Paris which aim to push forward negotiations in time to reach an agreement by 2006. It allows tariffs to be converted into a ...

This paper examines the significance of the report made by WTO dispute settlement mechanism (a dispute settlement panel) concerning the dispute between the U.S. and Mexico over international ...

Regardless of whether it is justified, there is a perception among many delegations that India adopts an obstructionist role and is seldom constructive within the World Trade Organization (WTO). As ...

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has undertaken a comprehensive review of Bangladesh's tariff regime, identifying 60 tariff lines where current customs duties and associated charges surpass the ...

Fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine are creating new challenges for the World Trade Organization, which has struggled in recent years to play its role as the regulator and ...

Chennai: The WTO’s 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14) held in Cameroon ended without agreement on key issues, including e-commerce moratorium and expiry of safeguards against non-violation complaints ...

Medical device industry has sought a phased manufacturing plan and predictable WTO permissible tariff structure to boost domestic medical device industry. This plan as recommended should be linked ...

Because of emerging China UnionPay (CUP) in the global credit card market and its competition with the Visa card, the first World Trade Organization (WTO) case in the financial services sector ...