Source: WTO
2 December 2020
Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff urged WTO members on 2 December to push for extensive reform of existing global farm trade rules, declaring a "pressing need for a breakthrough" on all major subjects under negotiation. In remarks delivered to a Virtual WTO Agriculture Symposium, DDG Wolff noted that for issues such as agricultural subsidies, there were no good alternatives to making progress other than in a multilateral setting. His remarks are below.