WTO Safeguards Committee Talks Ways to Increase Committee Functionality
The World Trade Organization's Committee on Safeguards discussed ways to improve the committee's functionality during an Oct. 25 meeting, the WTO said. The committee adopted a report it sent to the Council for Trade in Goods in which it "outlined…
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the efforts made in this area and the issues on which agreement was reached," the WTO said. Negotiations will continue regarding a joint proposal from various members, and the committee agreed on an update of the format of its annual report to boost transparency, the WTO added. During the meeting, members also discussed a host of legislative notifications of members' new or amended safeguard regulations as well as specific notifications of safeguard actions.