The World Trade Organization (WTO) will have to work twice as hard if it wants to reach an agreement on fisheries subsidies before the end of 2019, in line with its Buenos Aires commitments in 2017.
On 17 May in Geneva, several heads of delegation expressed their disappointment at the slow progress and increasingly divergent positions on this issue, despite their agreement in Buenos Aires in 2017 to conduct negotiations to clarify and improve existing WTO disciplines on fisheries subsidies...