Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström and outgoing US Trade Representative Mike Froman will jointly chair a ministerial meeting in Geneva on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 December which they hope will be decisive for attempts to conclude plurilateral negotiations with 15 other countries that have been continuing on the side-lines of the WTO since the start of 2014 on an agreement on liberalising trade in environmental goods (EGA).
The EGA aims to remove tariffs on hundreds of products and...