WTO members grapple with existential reform questions ahead of MC14

World Trade Organization members are grappling with the purpose of reform talks amid questions about the institution’s importance as they prepare for a ministerial conference in just five months, according to a report by the facilitator of the reform talks. Organizational reform conversations have dominated much of the Geneva discourse in recent years as two of the WTO’s key functions, negotiations and dispute settlement, have been mired in deadlock. The U.S. for years has blocked nominations to the WTO’s Appellate...