Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department is taking to reform and improve the World Trade Organisation.
The UK champions the rules-based multilateral system and is actively supporting efforts to reform and improve the key functions of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The Department for International Trade (DIT) regularly engages with partners at the WTO and other fora, including at the G7, G20, Ottawa Group and Commonwealth. In particular, the UK’s G7 Presidency highlighted WTO reform as a priority, and the UK has co-sponsored a proposal in the General Council to enhance WTO transparency and improve compliance with notification requirements.
At the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference the UK will continue to encourage all WTO members to commit to action-oriented work to reform the WTO.