At the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi, Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao reaffirmed China s commitment to global trade governance and efforts to continuously push for economic and trade cooperation. The discussions focused on crucial agendas including trade dispute appellate and settlement system and cooperation in joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Background
Since 2012, the China Round Table (CRT) has served a platform for stakeholders dialogue on WTO accessions, with the aim of sustaining discussions on the integration of new members in the rules-based multilateral trading system. To date, eight Round Tables have been hosted in three continents: CRT-01 in Beijing, China (May 2012); CRT-02 in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR (October 2013); CRT-03 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan (June 2015); CRT-04 in Nairobi, Kenya (December 2015); CRT-05 in Siem Reap, Cambodia (March 2017); CRT-06 in Buenos Aires, Argentina (December 2017); CRT-07 in Astana, Kazakhstan (September 2018), and CRT-08 in Moscow, Russian Federation (December 2019). These Round Tables have provided a forum for experience sharing on best practices on WTO accession and post-accession, and for exploring how WTO accessions could strengthen the multilateral trading system.