Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The WTOs constitution, the Marrakesh Agreement, says agreements among subgroups, known as plurilaterals, are exceptional and can only be adopted by consensus.
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The final showdown, over many hours, centred on whether a moratorium on tariffs on digital transmissions would be renewed a key demand for Big Tech and which the US was demanding be made permanent.
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey In helping to spearhead this first precedent, New Zealand has aligned itself with the US in snubbing its nose at the rules-based multilateral trade regime that it purports to champion, says Dr Jane Kelsey.
Article – The Conversation Changes to fundamental World Trade Organization rules are being driven by the US and EU. This weeks meeting in Cameroon could see developing nations lose out.
Press Release – Nga Toki Whakarururanga Regrettably, the Indian Government made this impossible by repeatedly rejecting requests from the Crown to share the text with us, according to Aroha Mead, a member of the entitys governing Kihat and an advisor on these negotiations.
Press Release – UN ESCAP Trade expansion was uneven across subregions. Electronics-led export growth was concentrated in East Asia and South-East Asia, while South and South-West Asia experienced a decline of around 2 per cent.
