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WTO DG Emphasizes December Deadline for End of Text-Based Fisheries Talks

World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Iceland's Einar Gunnarsson, chair of the fisheries subsidies negotiations, emphasized the December deadline for members to complete "text-based work for new disciplines on subsidies contributing to overcapacity and overfishing," the WTO said. The…

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DG and committee chair made their comments during the Nov. 6-10 "Fish Week" negotiations, the seventh of their kind, that saw members hold talks on "how the draft disciplines and the provisions for special and differential treatment could be operationalized."