• The work programme covers about 20 areas of trade.
  • Main Issues:
    • Agriculture.
    • Services.
    • Intellectual property rights.
    • Trade facilitation.
    • Development (improving trading prospects of developing nations).
    • Permanent solution to public stockholding and agricultural subsidies.
    • E-commerce (permanent moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions).
    • Fisheries Subsidies.
    • Covid-19 Pandemic and Intellectual Property (waiver for vaccines).
    • Food Insecurity (exemption for WFP purchases from export restrictions).
    • WTO Reforms.