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ANNUAL REPORT: The @wto #Services Council (=full membership overseeing work under the General Agreement on Trade in Services, GATS)
It's 10 pages so just a highlight
#TradeInServices
1/4 docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/S…
It's 10 pages so just a highlight
#TradeInServices
1/4 docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/S…
Electronic commerce and services:
This now covers 3 areas
1. The moratorium on tax on cross-border electronic commerce (a topic as old as the WTO itself)
2. “Invigorated” discussion on boosting digital capability, from this paper: docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/S…
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This now covers 3 areas
1. The moratorium on tax on cross-border electronic commerce (a topic as old as the WTO itself)
2. “Invigorated” discussion on boosting digital capability, from this paper: docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/S…
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3. The on-going friction over negotiations in a sub-group of only part of the membership (“#plurilateral” talks, officially “joint-statement initiatives”, JSIs, seen as a way to progress when the membership is deadlocked) versus objections.
“A couple” = India and SAfrica
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“A couple” = India and SAfrica
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The General Council (= all @wto members) meets on Tuesday and Wednesday, the last time before the summer break.
It is the top decision-making body below the (in normal times) biennial Ministerial Conference.
Some juicy items on the draft agenda: docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/S…
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It is the top decision-making body below the (in normal times) biennial Ministerial Conference.
Some juicy items on the draft agenda: docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/S…
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Among items attracting attention, eg:
Item 4—Proposed #TRIPSwaiver on some intellectual property protection for #COVID19—status report & request for a decision to extend the discussion in the intellectual property (TRIPS) council.
See draft here: tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2021/05/25/wto…
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Item 4—Proposed #TRIPSwaiver on some intellectual property protection for #COVID19—status report & request for a decision to extend the discussion in the intellectual property (TRIPS) council.
See draft here: tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2021/05/25/wto…
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Extending discussion of the #TRIPSwaiver should be a formality. Already agreed in lengthy debate in the TRIPS Council.
But in the past, members needed to underscore their positions politically by repeating their arguments in the General Council
3/10 tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2021/03/05/dir…
But in the past, members needed to underscore their positions politically by repeating their arguments in the General Council
3/10 tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2021/03/05/dir…
