From the WTO: proposal for a smooth transition package

18 October 2021.  Ahead of the Twelfth WTO Ministerial Conference, Chad, on behalf of the LDC Group, submitted a communication to the WTO General Council on “A Smooth Transition Package in Favour of Members Graduating from the LDC Category“. It proposes a package of support measures for graduated LDCs and that members granting unilateral trade preferences to LDCs extend and gradually phase out these preferences over a period of six to nine years.