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Goods Council Selects Chilean Envoy As New Chair, Approves CBERA Waiver

March 30, 2015 at 4:58 PM
The World Trade Organization Goods Council selected Hector Casanueva of Chile as its new chairman on March 26 along with 13 chairmen for its subsidiary bodies, according to a WTO press release. Casanueva replaces Joakim Reiter of Sweden, who was selected to become the deputy secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development effective April 1. Atanas Atanassov Paparizov of Bulgaria served as chairman on an interim basis after Reiter departed last fall, according to a WTO spokesman...


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