DDG Wolff urges standards bodies to boost support for multilateral trading system

Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff urged international standards bodies to strengthen their support for the WTO and the multilateral trading system. “We need to spread the message that an integrated global economy, with a strong and dynamic multilateral trading system — which includes international standards — is a better world for everyone,” he said in a keynote address 28 September to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) General Assembly in Geneva. “Technology and innovation do not tend to thrive behind walls of any kind.”

All copyrights for this article are reserved to WTO news