This year's Public Forum theme is ‘Trading Forward: Adapting to a Changing World’. The sub-themes will be: - services — the next trade frontier; - the next generation — what do Millennials & Gen Z want to see from global trade; - the next chapter of the WTO — strengthening the trading...

The WTO Public Forum is an annual event that provides a platform for public debate across a wide range of WTO issues and trade topics. The theme of the event is “Expanding Trade through Innovation and the Digital Economy”.

The themes of the 15th Annual Conference are: - Measurement and impact analysis of non-tariff measures and trade facilitation - Trade, environment, natural resources and sustainable development - Analysis of multilateral and bilateral trade agreements in a globalizing world

The explosion of regional agreements in many parts of the world over the last decade and a half raises important questions about what this trend means for multilateral trade relations in an increasingly globalized world. There is much literature that seeks to explain and understand what...