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WTO & Multilateral Affairs
USTR's WTO & Multilateral Affairs (WAMA) office has overall responsibility for trade negotiations and policy coordination regarding matters before the World Trade Organization (WTO), including the Doha Development Agenda negotiations.
Specific responsibilities include the operation of various WTO committees, including those established for subject areas such as subsidies, anti-dumping and other trade remedies, standards and technical barriers to trade, government procurement, customs/trade facilitation & security matters, WTO Trade Policy Reviews, and preferential trade arrangements.
WAMA staff is also often responsible for these issues where they are specifically addressed in individual FTAs. The office has the lead with regard to WTO accessions, and is also responsible for trade policy coordination and negotiations in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
3/21/2010
3/19/2010
USTR Names Big Sky, Montana Site Of 2011 APEC Trade Ministerial
3/19/2010
USTR Negotiators Report Successful First Round Of Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks
3/19/2010
3/18/2010
U.S. And China Agree On Reopening Chinese Pork Market To U.S.
3/1/2010
2010 Trade Policy Agenda and 2009 Annual Report
12/31/2009
2009 Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) Report
7/24/2009
Report to Congress on U.S. Equipment Industry Access to the Galileo Program and Markets
6/30/2009
Report on Bolivia and Ecuador with Regard to the Andean Trade Preference Act
5/13/2009
Memorandum of Understand Between U.S. and EU on Beef Dispute
3/16/2010
Remarks by United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk at the National League of Cities
3/12/2010
3/9/2010
Remarks by United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk at the National Press Club
3/3/2010
Remarks by Ambassador Miriam Sapiro at the Special 301 Public Hearing
3/3/2010
Testimony of Ambassador Ron Kirk Before the Senate Finance Committee
Geneva Ministerial Conference
The WTO has posted press releases and documents related to the ministerial conference at their website.
Links to information on Press and NGO accreditation are also available through the WTO website.
Efforts Against Protectionism
As President Obama and Ambassador Kirk continue to speak out on the importance of resisting protectionism during the global economic crisis, USTR, in coordination with other agencies, has been monitoring and responding to trade-related measures taken by other nations in response to the financial downturn.
This interagency monitoring effort helps directly inform the global monitoring effort at the WTO. As part of this global monitoring effort, the WTO issues reports on protectionism and convenes a meeting on the issue at least once a quarter.
The latest WTO report, issued to WTO Members on July 1, was discussed on July 13, 2009 during a meeting of the WTO Trade Policy Review Board (TPRB). Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Peter Allgeier made this statement at the meeting.