African trade ministers highlight WTO priorities

A group of African trade ministers this week outlined a slew of World Trade Organization priorities in a statement defending special and differential treatment, backing WTO fisheries negotiations and advocating “meaningful outcomes” on issues important to African members, such as cotton subsidies and public stockholding. The ministers met in Ghana last month and developed the joint statement to emphasize a development-based agenda for WTO negotiations and WTO reform. The group also recommended the next head of the WTO -- Director-General...