Annual Report 2016

The Annual Report 2016 begins with a message from the WTO Director-General and an overview of 2015. This is followed by more in-depth accounts of the WTO’s areas of activity over the past 12 months, with a spotlight on all the major events of 2015.
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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.
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