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Business Matters: The World Trade Organisation reach overfishing agreement

The World Trade Organisation reach overfishing agreement

18/06/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, The World Trade Organisation reach overfishing agreement

The World Trade Organisation agrees deals on Covid vaccines and subsidies for fishing.

Ministers at the World Trade Organisation have reached limited agreements on a number of areas, after talks in Geneva continued for 36 hours past the original deadline.

Vivienne Nunis is joined by journalist and co-founder of the digital news startup,The Current PK, Mehmal Sarfraz in Pakistan, and Professor of Culture at Yorksville University, Ralph Silva, from Canada. 

We hear from Peter Allegeier the former US Ambassador to the World Trade Organisation and President of Nauset Global LLC, about the deal on banning fishing subsidies and President Putin’s reaction to the sanctions imposed on Russia. 

A BBC survey of more than 4 thousand adults in the UK shows people are cutting back on food and car journeys to save money. Nancy Marshall-Genzer of our US partner programme, Marketplace, has been investigating how American Gen Zs are coping with the economic instability.   

The song ‘Running Up That Hill’ by Kate Bush has reached number one in the UK, 37 years after it was first released. Entertainment commentator Gita Amar joins us from Los Angeles. 

Colombians go to the polls on Sunday in an election that commentators say will change the direction of the country - no matter who wins. Sergio Guzman, director of Colombia Risk Analysis, and businessman Hernando Barreto give their views. 

Researchers in the United States and South Korea have come up with a novel way to tackle the growing issue of counterfeit medicines and whisky – an edible QR code. Dr Young Kim is the study's principal researcher, he provides some insight into exactly how it works – and why it is needed.  


(PICTURE: Fishing bait is unloaded at Bridlington Harbour fishing port in Yorkshire on December 8th 2020. PICTURE CREDIT: Danny Lawson/PA Wire.)

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