Trade monitoring
Trade monitoring reports
Trade monitoring reports showed that WTO members continued to introduce trade-restrictive measures in 2015 at the same pace as the year before. Given the continuing uncertainties in the global economy, the reports stressed the need for members to show restraint in imposing new trade restrictions and to eliminate more of the existing measures in order to reduce the accumulated stockpile of restrictions. The reports also call for more transparency in the area of non-tariff measures.
Agradecimientos y Descargo de responsabilidad
El Informe sobre el comercio mundial 2018 ha sido elaborado bajo la responsabilidad general de Xiaozhun Yi, Director General Adjunto de la OMC, y Robert Koopman, Director de la División de Estudios Económicos y Estadística. El informe de este año ha sido coordinado por Cosimo Beverelli y Emmanuelle Ganne. Los autores del informe son Marc Bacchetta, Eddy Bekkers, Cosimo Beverelli, Emmanuelle Ganne, John Hancock, Mark Koulen, Andreas Maurer, José-Antonio Monteiro, Coleman Nee, Roberta Piermartini, Stela Rubinova, Viktor Stolzenburg, Robert Teh y Ankai Xu (División de Estudios Económicos y Estadística).
Concluding remarks by the Chairperson of the Trade Policy Review Body, H.E. Mr. Mario Matus at the Trade Policy Review of Zimbabwe 19 and 21 October 2011
This second Trade Policy Review of Zimbabwe has provided an opportunity to improve our understanding of recent economic, including trade, policy developments, and to identify areas in which there is room for improvement. Our frank discussion has been stimulated by the full and open participation of the Zimbabwean delegation led by H.E. Pr. Welshman Ncube, Minister of Industry and Commerce, as well as by the perceptive remarks of the discussant, H.E. Dr. Anthony Mothae Maruping of Lesotho, and the active engagement of many Members.
Trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS)
During 2009 the Council for TRIPS reviewed intellectual property legislation in individual countries and discussed the relationship between the TRIPS Agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity, TRIPS and public health, technical cooperation and capacity building and a number of other matters, in addition to the issues reported in the section on negotiations.