Ottawa Group has opportunity to revive WTO modernization

The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed longstanding flaws in the World Trade Organization, and made clear how global trade can be managed better.

International Trade Minister Mary Ng is hosting a virtual meeting of nations devoted to modernizing the World Trade Organization on June 15. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY OONAGH FITZGERALD

June 15, 2020

This month International Trade Minister Mary Ng is planning to host a virtual meeting of the Ottawa Group of 13 like-minded states dedicated to modernizing the World Trade Organization (WTO), after the Group’s March in-person meeting was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The need to moderni...

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