WTO ministers call for fisheries text; no advance on Appellate Body impasse

Trade ministers meeting on the margins of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development meeting in Paris directed negotiators to move toward text-based negotiations in hopes of reading agreement at the World Trade Organization to ban harmful fisheries subsidies, according to Geneva sources. Ministers also discussed the WTO’s reform efforts, including the crisis facing the Appellate Body, but sources said the discussion about how to move forward with nominations to the body offered broke no new ground, increasing the chances...