New chair appointed for WTO fisheries talks after months without one
World Trade Organization members have approved a new chair for the Negotiating Group on Rules, the venue for negotiations on how to curb subsidies for illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, after the group went months without one. Colombian Ambassador to the WTO Santiago Wills was confirmed as the new chair for the fisheries subsidies talks on Friday, according to a Geneva-based trade official. He replaces the former Mexican ambassador, Roberto Zapata Barradas, who announced he was stepping down ahead of...