Australia will become the newest member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) plurilateral Government Procurement Agreement (GPA). On October 17, 2018, parties to the GPA unanimously approved a decision to welcome Australia as the 48th WTO member to be covered by the GPA.
The GPA is a plurilateral agreement that strives to ensure open, fair
On Monday, July 30, 2018, the World Trade Organization (WTO) released new resources regarding trends in global trade. The resources issued by the WTO are the latest editions of the annual publications of World Trade Statistical Review, Trade Profiles and World Tariff Profiles.
World Trade Statistical Review provides an in-depth analysis of trends in global
In the past two days, two more countries – Peru and Saudi Arabia – ratified the World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). Their ratification followed Mexico and Hondurus, who ratified the TFA earlier this month.
The submission of instruments of acceptance from Peru and Saudi Arabia means that more than 80 percent of the
Turkey ratified the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), and presented its instrument of acceptance to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Deputy Director General Yi Xiaozhun on March 16, 2016.
Turkey is the 71st member of the WTO to ratify the TFA. The TFA will
The European Union (EU) has requested consultations, a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute proceeding, with Colombia to address what it believes are discriminatory practices against spirits being imported from the EU into Colombia. The EU says that Colombian authorities treat imported alcoholic beverages from the EU in a manner that is inconsistent with the WTO.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) released new editions of its key statistical publications for 2015: International Trade Statistics, Trade Profiles, World Tariff Profiles and Services Profiles.
These publications provide data on world trade, including trends in world trade, trade policy measures, average tariffs imposed by individual economies, basic economic indicators, and key statistics on infrastructure