These technical notes accompany the main blog posts, which can be found on the homepage
WTO reform, technicalities and transparency
- Technical note: types of plurilateral deals and adding them to WTO rules January 3, 2024
- Text: WTO reform etc—G7 Trade Ministers’ Statement Osaka-Sakai October 30, 2023
- Text: WTO reform proposals on enhancing transparency and review July 18, 2022
- Scorecards: How did the Ministerial Conference do? June 19, 2022
- Technical note: What are schedules of commitments in services? December 5, 2021
- Technical note: Participation in WTO plurilateral talks November 23, 2021
- Text: Trade and environmental sustainability structured discussions — statement for ministers November 5, 2021
- Text: Procedures for the circulation and derestriction of WTO documents 2002 April 24, 2021
- ‘Transparency in WTO work’: General Council minutes, July 1998 April 26, 2021
- ‘In keeping with TESSD’s open, transparent and inclusive nature …’ May 27, 2021
WTO Dispute settlement
- Technical note: Appeals ‘into the void’ in WTO dispute settlement July 10, 2023
- Technical note: Stages in WTO dispute settlement April 30, 2021
- Technical note: Dispute settlement is not essential (but it helps) January 31, 2020
- Technical note: ‘Zeroing’ January 31, 2020
- Technical note: WTO Appellate Body members and their terms January 31, 2020
Fisheries subsidies
- Data: FAO figures on WTO members’ shares of sea fishing capture December 8, 2023
- Technical note: the meaning of ‘fisheries subsidies’ for the WTO talks October 6, 2023
- The 2022 WTO Fisheries Subsidies Agreement — the missing piece November 5, 2022
- Text: the 2022 WTO fisheries subsidies agreement November 4, 2022
- WTO fisheries subsidies talks — chair’s May 20, 2022 briefing May 20, 2022
Agriculture
- Texts: state of play in WTO farm talks and the crisis-meeting invitation November 24, 2023
- Text: the Cairns Group’s 2023 proposal on agricultural domestic support November 4, 2023
- Technical note: Agricultural domestic support categories in the WTO June 25, 2023
- Draft ministerial documents on agriculture, May 31, 2022 June 8 and 10, 2022
- Draft chair’s text November 2021 for the WTO agriculture negotiations (blog post) Domestic support | Market access | Export competition/subsidies | Export restrictions | Cotton | Special safeguard mechanism | Domestic support in food security stockholding | Transparency December 9, 2021
- Text: G33 proposal on ‘public stockholding’, July and September 2021 September 18, 2021
- Draft chair’s text July 2021 for the WTO agriculture negotiations (blog post) Domestic support | Market access | Export competition/subsidies | Export restrictions | Cotton | Special safeguard mechanism | Domestic support in food security stockholding | Transparency August 3, 2021
- Technical note: OECD agricultural support data for 28 countries June 27, 2021
- Technical note: The Cairns Group re-thinks domestic farm support February 4, 2021
Brexit
- Text: UK-Australia free trade agreement, December 2021 December 17, 2022
- Technical note: Renegotiated post-Brexit tariff quotas March 25, 2021
- Technical note: What the UK had to negotiate in the WTO March 21, 2021
- Technical note: Data and other problems with UK tariff quotas January 19, 2021
- Technical note: Rolling over food and drink names from EU to UK February 11, 2020
Intellectual property
- Technical note: The 2003 TRIPS waiver and 2005 amendment compared August 7, 2023
- Text: The agreed WTO intellectual property waiver for the pandemic June 18, 2022
- Text: The draft WTO intellectual property waiver for the 2022 Ministerial Conference June 11, 2022
- Text: The group-of-4’s compromise WTO intellectual property waiver proposal March 17, 2022 with updates
- Technical note: WHO’s African ‘hub-and-spokes’ vaccine technology set-up February 19, 2022
- Technical note: EU papers on COVID-19, for June-July 2021 WTO meetings June 5, 2021
- Technical note: The one and only compulsory licence for export December 16, 2020
- Technical note: The EU’s database of geographical indications January 5, 2020
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