Trade monitoring

En 2009 la Secretaría de la OMC comenzó a publicar un boletín mensual para mantener informados a los parlamentarios de lo que ocurre en la Organización. También organizó tres talleres regionales para parlamentarios en colaboración con asociaciones regionales de parlamentarios.

This fifth Trade Policy Review has offered a very useful opportunity for Members to deepen their understanding of the trade policies and practices of Nigeria, and to collectively appreciate the challenges it currently faces in sustaining and improving its economic prosperity. I would like to thank the Nigerian delegation, led by Ambassador Chiedu Osakwe, Trade Adviser of the Federal Ministry of Trade, Industry and Investment, our discussant Ambassador Yee Woan Tan of Singapore, and the more than 45 delegations that took the floor for their valuable contributions.

In 2015, the WTO received 16 new notifications about regional trade agreements (RTAs), down from 22 in 2014. The notifications involved eight new RTAs. Half of the RTAs were between developed and developing partners, maintaining a recent trend. The Asia Pacific region made the highest number of notifications – six RTAs – while the Americas made notifications about three RTAs. At the Tenth Ministerial Conference in Nairobi, ministers called for a discussion of the systemic implications of RTAs for the multilateral trading system.