BEYOND BALI:
Ambition and Realism at the WTO

Thursday, March 27, 2014
3:00 to 4:30 p.m. (Registration from 2:30 p.m.)
The National Press Club
529 14th Street, NW, 13th Floor
Washington, DC

Note to Reporters: Portions of this session will be off-the-record.

WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo set out two priorities in his remarks last Friday, Marh 14, to the WTO General Council: 1) implementing the Bali package and 2) completing, by the end of this year, a work plan for finishing the Doha Round.  We assume there was an unstated third objectives as well, namely, re-establishing the centrality of the WTO in a global trading systemt that is increasingly characterized by non-WTO regional and bilateral agreements.

All of those issues and more will be up for discussion at the GBD colloquium next Thursday afternoon when our guests will be...

Speakers

Keith Rockwell
Director, Information and External Relations Division
The World Trade Organization

Angela Ellard
Chief Trade Counsel and Trade Subcommittee Staff Director
House Committee on Ways and Means, and

Richard O. Cunningham
Partner
Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

Price & Registration. : $45 General Admission.  There is no charge for GBD Members, U.S. Government staff or press.  

To Register, simply click below and follow the prompts.  We look forward to seeing you at 3 p.m. (or before) on March 27.