Rules committee chair to consolidate fisheries proposals after receiving ACP, LDC texts

The chair of the World Trade Organization's Rules committee will consolidate seven proposals for a ban on fisheries subsidies after receiving proposals from the African, Caribbean and Pacific, and the Least Developed Countries negotiating groups. The submissions from the ACP and LDC groups bring the total number of texts to seven. Those proposals will be consolidated into a “collective document, a sort of analytical table or matrix,” Jamaican Ambassador Wayne McCook, who chairs the Rules committee, said at a July...