WTO's Small Business Working Group OKs New Work Program, US Joins Ranks

The World Trade Organization's Informal Working Group on Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises approved a new work program March 13 and called for papers on MSMEs provisions in regional trade agreements that will inform the working group's work on this issue. The new work program will center on boosting MSMEs access to information, building capacity to generate inclusion of MSMEs in international trade, providing policy guidance, implementing the 2020 MSMEs package and engaging in the private sector. The U.S. also joined the group, along with Barbados, bringing the total participating countries to 97.