Ministerial declaration, moratoriums on e-commerce duties and TRIPS non-violations in doubt as MC11 kicks off

BUENOS AIRES – Ministers gathered at the World Trade Organization’s 11th ministerial will have to decide whether to renew moratoriums on e-commerce duties and non-violations of the WTO’s intellectual property agreement while also grappling with what sources described as fading chances for a ministerial declaration. Talks on a draft ministerial declaration broke down in Geneva in part because the U.S. pushed back against language that would have recognized the WTO as the center of the multilateral trading system, sources here...