WTO Members Fail To Make Progress At TF Committee; Clash Over Future Meetings

A meeting this week of the World Trade Organization committee overseeing the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) failed to make any progress toward breaking the deadlock over the deal's implementation and instead devolved into a fight over whether the committee should continue to meet at all, according to Geneva sources. The Sept. 29 meeting of the Preparatory Committee on Trade Facilitation (PCTF) was the panel's first session since India in late July blocked the approval of a protocol to formally insert...