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LOCATION:Online-Webinar
DESCRIPTION:The Federal Ministry of Labor and Economy\, the Research Centre Internatio
 nal Economics and the Federal Academy of Administration invite to the semin
 ar W4 (2024): The Multilateral World Trade System - Future of the WTO  Lect
 urer: Univ. Ass. MMag. Dr.iur. Ralph Janik\, LL.M. (SFU / University of Vie
 nna / AUB) Topics: 1. The world trading system through the ages  Historical
  overview: from the Havana Charter to the WTO Presentation of today's WTO â
 ˆ’ Members − Organisational structure − Agreements concluded  2. Positi
 ve developments vs. structural problems of the WTO  Size of the WTO and div
 ersity of member states' interests Agriculture: Tension between food safety
  and distortion of competition Trade in services as an area of conflict bet
 ween the global North and South WTO negotiation mode: Single Undertaking or
  „nothing is considered agreed until everything is agreed“ Modern free 
 trade agreements and the fragmentation of the global trading system – an 
 alternative to the WTO?  3. Current negotiating points and the future of th
 e WTO  Current negotiations (e.g. fisheries\, vaccines) and interactions wi
 th structural problems Is the WTO (in its existing form) obsolete? In which
  areas is there a need for reform to solve the structural challenges?  The 
 webinar is part of the Foreign Trade and Investment Curriculum 2023/24. Mor
 e information about the Foreign Trade Curriculum.
SUMMARY:AW-Curriculum: The Multilateral World Trade System – Future of the WTO
ORGANIZER:FIW
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