WTO agreement: The Bali Ribbon

WTO agreement: The Bali Ribbon / Richard Baldwin, Vox. EU, 12 December 2013

http://www.voxeu.org/article/wto-agreement-bali-ribbon

The WTO signed a mini-package of trade initiatives in Bali last week. This column argues that the ‘Bali package’ is welcome but not enough. Without some new initiative or direction, the WTO looks set to drift for the next few years. The WTO cannot move ahead until the trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic ‘mega-regionals’ are done or dead. In the meantime, the WTO should promote research and discussion on how 21st-century trade issues could be brought into the WTO when the time is ripe…


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