Goods Council Agrees on 2020 Chairs for Subsidiary Bodies, India Missing in all 14 Chairs

The WTO’s Goods Council, on 27 July, approved a list of new chairs to the 14 subsidiary bodies that report to the Council.

The new chairs to the subsidiary bodies will take office when they have been formally elected by the committee or working party concerned. They are:

· Market Access Committee: Mr Anatoly Chaplin (Russian Federation)

· Agriculture Committee: Ms Maria Escandor (Philippines)

· Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Committee: Mr Gregory MacDonald (Canada)

· Technical Barriers to Trade Committee: Mr Laurence Sandral (Australia)

· Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs) Committee: Mr Manuel Chacón (Colombia)

· Antidumping Committee: Ms Maarit Keitanen (Finland)

· Customs Valuation Committee: Mr Carlos Guevara (Ecuador)

· Rules of Origin Committee: Mr Han-Ming Huang (Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu)

· Import Licensing Committee: Dr Muhammad Irfan (Pakistan)

· Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Committee: Ms Sungyo Choi (Republic of Korea)

· Safeguards Committee: Mr Mustafa Tuzcu (Turkey)

· Working Party on State Trading Enterprises: Ms Johana Méndez (Panama)

· Trade Facilitation Committee: HE Ms Katrina Naut (Dominican Republic)

· Information Technology Agreement Committee: Ms Uma Muniandy (Singapore)