Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama and Paraguay have spoken out against the transparency and licensing mechanism for Covid-19 vaccine exports set up by the EU at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) General Council on 1-2 March. They had called, on 18 February, for “restraint in adopting and implementing such measures” in a communication to the WTO.
According to a WTO official, 18 WTO member countries spoke at the meeting on Tuesday 2 March. “A majority of them agree that the...