The WTO Chairs Annual Conference of 2017 will take stock of the work undertaken by the 19 active WTO Chairs in 2016-17, identify the main achievements and challenges encountered in the delivery of activities, and the future direction of the…

The WTO, and more generally the rules-based trading system, is under scrutiny. Concerns have arisen about the role of trade, globalization more generally, and technological change in the loss of manufacturing jobs in industrial countries and…