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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12411

25 January 2020
EXTERNAL ACTION / Wto
In Davos, 17 States agree on interim appeal mechanism for trade disputes
Brussels, 24/01/2020 (Agence Europe)

Alongside an informal World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting in Davos on 23 January, 17 WTO member states agreed on a two-step interim process to address the paralysis of the Appellate Body (AB).

Since December, the European Union and a few other states, including Canada and Norway, have been trying to get around the paralysis of the WTO's AB by proposing an alternative system pending a systemic solution to this blockage (see EUROPE B12387A23).

The Interim Agreement identified at...

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