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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).
2/5/2010
U.S.-Canada joint statement on government procurement
2/5/2010
Kirk comments on US-Canada procurement agreement
2/3/2010
2/1/2010
FY2011 Budget Information and Comment from Ambassador Kirk
1/29/2010
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
5/1/2009
2/3/2010
1/28/2010
Remarks by Ambassador Demetrios Marantis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
1/21/2010
1/20/2010
Remarks of United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk at the U.S. Mayors Winter Meeting
1/11/2010
Remarks of United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk at the Anzaldúas Bridge Opening Ceremony
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.