Brazil Ratifies Trade Facilitation Agreement

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo is in Brazil this week to discuss the implementation of recent WTO agreements and the future work of the organization. During his visit to the Brazilian capital, President Dilma Rousseff presented DG Azevêdo with Brazil’s formal instrument of acceptance of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement.

In Brasília, the Director-General met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mauro Vieira, the Minister of Development, Industry, and Foreign Trade Armando Monteiro, the Minister of Finance Nelson Barbosa, and Senator Aloysio Nunes, President of the Senate’s Foreign Affairs Committee.