"Future Pandemic Management: A Roundtable Discussion", organised by British Embassy Mexico City and C Minds

"Future Pandemic Management: A Roundtable Discussion", organised by British Embassy Mexico City and C Minds

Panelist, Gender and Social Inclusion in Trade Agreements, at International Trade and Gender Symposium by ECLAC UN

Roundtable:Gender and Social Inclusion in Trade
Agreements.
Panelists:
Mariangela Linoci, UNCTAD;
Bogolo Kenewendo, Former Minister of Trade, Botswana, and Economic Development Consultant;
Gloria Atuheirwe, Director Women in Trade at TradeMark East Africa;
Amrita Bahri, Professor, ITAM;
Margaret Ventura, Directorate General for Foreign Trade, Belize;
Mónica Lugo, PRODENSA, Mexico

Moderated Roundtable Discussions on trade-policy agenda and gender, at International Trade and Gender Symposium, by ECLAC UN

I moderated the roundtable discussions on trade-policy agenda and gender, at International Trade and Gender Symposium, organised by ECLAC UN, and supported by UK Aid and WTO. In this session, we discussed the similarities and differences between these different ways of addressing gender considerations in trade policy context. We took stock of what has been achieved so far through different initiatives, what other developments can we expect in the near future, and what is needed to make the inclusion of gender considerations in trade agreements a "game changer" for women.

Online Conference: The 3R Initiative: Re-thinking, Re-packaging and Rescuing World Trade Law"

Organised this online conference, with 20+ speakers and discussants from different universities and 100+ participants overall. The discussions focussed on rethinking, repackaging and rescuing world trade law. Details here: https://lawschoolsgloballeague.com/event/summer-academic-conference-17-…

Translation: Dispute settlement of the World Trade Organization (WTO)

The experience to date in the WTO suggests that the plurilingual nature of the WTO Agreements does not make treaty interpretation significantly more difficult than it would be with a text authentic in one language only. The terms of a plurilingual treaty are presumed to have the same meaning in each authentic text, which means that a treaty interpreter need not compare the authentic texts as a routine matter as a matter of law.

“To Dystopia and Beyond: The WTO in a Warming Megaregional World” in Lewis, et al (Eds.) A Post-WTO International Legal Order

This chapter highlights the linkages between the climate crisis and trade negotiations in a dystopic post-WTO world. It argues that the window of opportunity to achieve an effective multilateral trade regime has closed and will be sealed shut by accelerating climate change. The post-WTO regime is a megaregional regime, and it will exclude those countries that do not get on board before the destabilizing effects of the climate crisis make their inclusion impossible to achieve. Geopolitical shifts destabilized the WTO regime and have led to its collapse.

Virtual Roundtable: What Will COVID-19 Mean for the Participation of Developing Countries in the Global Trading System

The unprecedented economic crisis triggered by the outbreak of COVID-19 is already having dramatic effects on world trade and appears very likely to trigger lasting changes to the world trading system, regardless of how the next phase of 'opening up' from lock downs progresses. Against this background the Global Economy and Finance Programme at Chatham House and University of Sussex co-hostes a round table under the UK Trade Policy Observatory on 'What Will COVID-19 Mean for the Participation of Developing Countries in the Global Trading System in the Short and Long Run?'.

Trumping Capacity Gap with Negotiation Strategies: The Mexican USMCA Negotiation Experience

Note: All views or omissions are author's own. This paper is solely for academic exchange purposes, and it does not reflect or suggest WTO's view on this or any other matter at all.

Seminario sobre las Reformas en la OMC

Angel Villalobos, Director General De Comercio Internacional de Servicios e Inversión de la Secretaría de Economía del Gobierno de México, organizó un panel
en las oficinas de la Secretaría de Economía en la Ciudad de México, para funcionarios de gobierno y el sector privado, sobre las Reformas en la OMC. Los Panelistas de este Seminario de tres horas sobre la OMC fueron:

PAOLO CADIRI
Jefe de la Sección Económica y Comercial de la Delegación de la Unión Europea en México.

RYOSUKE KUWANA
Ministro de la Embajada de Japón en México.

Séminaire sur les enjeux de la négociation commerciale multilatérale dans le cadre de l'OMC (du 16 au 17 avril 2019)