Chair of WTO fisheries talks aiming to finalize deal in the ‘near future’

Following a close-but-no-cigar failure to secure a deal at the 13th World Trade Organization ministerial conference in February, the chair of the WTO fisheries subsidies negotiations is pushing for members to finalize an agreement in the “near future,” outlining a few categories of “desirable adjustments” for the text, including at least one political interlinkage -- on forced labor -- that will have to be resolved. The talks are the second phase of the fisheries subsidies negotiations after members at MC12...