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Heads of International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group, World Health Organization, World Trade Organization issue extraordinary call for financing actions by government leaders to accelerate end to COVID-19 pandemic. IMF, WB, WHO, WTO principals call for $50 billion investment to generate $9 trillion in global economic returns by 2025 and boost manufacturing capacity, supply, trade flows and the equitable distribution of diagnostics, oxygen, treatments, medical supplies and vaccines. Call to action by this quadrilateral grouping comes at a perilous point in the pandemic and as the historic World Health Assembly concludes, G7 meetings commence, and follows the G20 Global Health Summit. Doses need to be donated immediately to developing countries, synchronized with national vaccine deployment plans, including through COVAX, which is co-led by CEPI, Gavi and WHO, alongside key delivery partner UNICEF.

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Core participants in the WTO's Research Hub include the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group, the International Trade Centre, the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, participants in the WTO Academic Chairs Programme, and a number of academics from various countries and regions. Other experts will be invited to take part on an ad hoc basis.

"I believe the launch of this initiative is particularly important today because of the economic and social upheaval experienced by millions of women across the globe due to the COVID-19 pandemic," said the WTO Trade and Gender Focal Point, Anoush der Boghossian, who will coordinate the activities of the Hub and contribute to it.

The Hub will enable the sharing of information on trade and gender research, foster research partnerships, and promote comparative research...

Pour combler le fossé mondial en matière de vaccination, il est nécessaire d’augmenter les capacités de production afin d’exporter davantage de vaccins vers les pays les plus pauvres. … Tous les Etats doivent éviter les mesures restrictives qui perturbent les chaînes d’approvisionnement des fabricants de vaccins dans d’autres pays. Nous devons également faciliter le transfert de connaissances et de technologies, afin que davantage de pays puissent produire des vaccins. … Notre action commune pour combler le fossé mondial en matière de vaccination contre la Covid-19 doit être la première étape sur le chemin de la véritable coopération globale dans le domaine de la santé prévue par la déclaration de Rome adoptée lors du sommet mondial sur la santé.

Josep Borrell, Vice-Président de la Commission européene 29 May 2021

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This page gathers key information on Lithuania's participation in the WTO. Lithuania has been a member of WTO since 31 May 2001. As of 1 May 2004 it is a member State of the European Union (more info). All EU member States are WTO members, as is the EU (until 30 November 2009 known officially in the WTO as the European Communities for legal reasons) in its own right.

This summary has been prepared by the WTO Secretariat’s Information and External Relations Division to help public understanding about developments in WTO disputes. It is not a legal interpretation of the issues, and it is not intended as a complete account of the issues. These can be found in the reports themselves and in the minutes of the Dispute Settlement Body’s meetings.

The Trade Cost Index has been produced by the Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD) to complement other statistics that WTO provides on trade costs, such as average tariffs or the number of non-tariff measures. The aim is to give a sense of the degree of restrictiveness of some of these measures, to measure how trade policy barriers compare to other trade costs, and who bears these costs.

What is it? The WTO Trade Cost Index uses estimates of bilateral trade costs for 43 economies and 31 sectors between 2000 and 2018 to illustrate the evolution of trade costs over time, the incidence of trade costs across economies and sectors ( Economy-Sector ), for different household income groups, by gender, firms size and skill groups ( Economic Agents ) as well as identify the main factors determining trade costs ( Determinants ).

How is this index built? Our approach is top down. That is, we start from an indirect estimation of overall trade...

The Forum's subthemes are “Enhancing resilience beyond COVID-19”, “Strengthening the multilateral trading system” and “Collective action towards sustainable trade”. The online registration form can be accessed here.

In light of the uncertainties and restrictions related to COVID-19, the WTO will continue to monitor the situation to determine whether the Forum will be held virtually or in hybrid mode. Information on this will be shared in July.

Individuals wishing to attend the Forum must register online by 6 September 2021.

For more information on the theme and sub-themes, please visit the Public Forum webpage https://www.wto.org/pf21.   

At a meeting of the Committee on Trade and Development in Special Session, the chair, Ambassador Kadra Ahmed Hassan of Dijbouti, encouraged WTO members to talk to each other to determine how progress can be made in the negotiations on special treatment for developing countries. Speaking on 27 April as part of a series of meetings she launched on 8 February, she reiterated her commitment to work with delegations to find compromise ahead of the WTO's Ministerial Conference to be held from 30 November to 3 December.

The WTO G90 group of developing country proposals under review at the meeting concerned technical barriers to trade and customs valuation. South Africa, on behalf of the G90, outlined the challenges faced by developing countries in complying with technical regulations and standards for traded goods and highlighted the need for certain flexibilities in implementing the WTO's Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade. The proposal on customs valuation seeks to...

Las fronteras se han dejado de lado en esta pandemia y seguramente as? ser? en el futuro. Quiz?s la inercia nos lleve a eso. ? Por eso debemos reflexionar r?pidamente y poner en pr?ctica a trav?s de las relaciones multilaterales o bilaterales este nuevo nacimiento del comercio dentro del mundo. ? Es urgente que el mundo se pueda abrir, en el comercio y en las relaciones complementarias, una vez m?s, el poder en este comercio internacional para lograr el progreso de nuestras naciones.

Luis Lacalle Pou, President of Uruguay 22 April 2021