The 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) ended on the evening of Friday 1 March after five days of intense negotiations (see EUROPE B13362A13). It will not have enabled a repeat of what the organisation’s Director-General, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, called “the miracle of MC12” in 2022. The members (now 166) did not agree on the second part of the agreement on fisheries subsidies and there was even less consensus on the reform of the global agricultural...