‘Last week’s WTO 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) in Geneva concluded with pro-corporate, anti-worker, and anti-development outcomes on all major issues of access to medicines, agriculture, digital trade, and the future of…
The World Trade Organization will host ministers from across the globe this month with the aim of striking deals on fish and vaccines, testing the world’s ability to set trade…
The World Trade Organization’s effort to select a leader entered a new stage this week as ambassadors from 164 member countries met with senior officials for private ‘confessionals’ to say…
Some time back, a publisher submitted a science textbook to the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) for review and approval for use in schools. On one of the pages…
The selection of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a Nigerian national, as the director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is significant for at least two reasons. She is the first woman to…
The World Trade Organization is scrambling to develop a plan for the biggest reform in its 23-year history after US President Donald Trump brought the world's top trade court to…
When the Indian state of Telangana announced a three-week window for free registration of land that had exchanged hands via hand-written notes on plain paper, the offer triggered more than…
An important issue for the WTO tribunal (Dispute Settlement Body: DSB) is how to interpret the trade agreements under WTO. The dispute is generally rooted in conflicting understanding of the…
Non-retroactivity principle: The WTO agreements 1994 (GATT 1994) resulted in the replacement of the GATT 1947. The relationship between the old and new agreements inevitably became an issue between the…
Party's ability: In the EC Bananas dispute, the panel determined another concern, a party's ability to retain its own legal counsel, (who were not government officials or nationals) to participate…
