Tag: WTO summit Buenos Aires 2017

• Monday, December 11th 2017 - 02:13 UTC

  WTO summit takes off in Buenos Aires: anybody's guess what the outcome can be

  

  Under fire from the United States, wracked by disagreements over China and unable to kick-start stalled trade talks, the World Trade Organization meets under a cloud in Argentina from this Sunday. The Buenos Aires meeting will be the first in the era of US President Donald Trump, who has pummeled the 164-member body relentlessly since taking office, even describing it as a “disaster”

• Monday, December 11th 2017 - 01:48 UTC

  Fishing subsidies to be on the WTO summit table in Buenos Aires

  

  Meeting for the first time in Latin America, the World Trade Organization’s 11th Ministerial Conference will take place in Buenos Aires from 10-13 December. Central to this year’s talks will be an international deal to curb harmful fishing subsidies. These are government payments or tax breaks that contribute to overcapacity, overfishing and illegal fishing (IUU) globally.

• Monday, December 11th 2017 - 01:31 UTC

  WTO summit in Buenos Aires: Argentina revokes WTO credentials of European activists

  

  Argentina blocked two European activists from entering the country on the eve of the World Trade Organization's ministerial meeting in Buenos Aires, the two told a local radio program Saturday.