WTO Members Pick Committee Leaders for Trade in Goods Council

World Trade Organization members on May 27 elected chairpersons for the 14 subsidiary bodies under the Council for Trade in Goods, the WTO announced. They are:

• Committee on Agriculture: Brazil's Diego Alfieri
• Committee on Antidumping Practices: Japan's Hirokazu Watanabe
• Committee on Customs Valuation: Taiwan's Judith Yu-ying Kuo
• Committee on Import Licensing: Portugal's Tiago Serras Rodrigues
• Committee on Market Access: India's Ninad Deshpande
• Committee on Rules of Origin: Hong Kong's Carol Tsang
• Committee on Safeguards: Peru's Milagros Miranda Rojas
• Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures: France's Maria Cosme
• Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures: South Korea's Jungsoo Hur
• Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade: U.K.'s Beatriz Stevens
• Committee on Trade Facilitation: Togo's Edem Kossi
• Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures: Bahrain's Maryam Abdulaziz Aldoseri
• Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products: Romania's George Andrei Rusu
• Working Party on State Trading Enterprises: Cambodia's Sokheng Kong.