Inside Trade

January 24, 2025

MC13: Abu Dhabi

Analysts to Ways & Means: Don’t expect much from MC13

By Hannah Monicken  / February 7, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Editor's note: This story has been updated since initial publication to better reflect lawmakers' remarks. The World Trade Organization’s 13th ministerial conference is unlikely to produce significant outcomes that are beneficial to U.S. interests, analysts told the House Ways & Means trade subcommittee on Wednesday, arguing that the organization is moving toward irrelevance. During a hearing on “advancing America's interests at the World Trade Organization’s 13th ministerial meeting,” witnesses were less than impressed with the WTO and the MC13...

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