BRUSSELS, Mar 18, CMC – Barbados has become the 60th member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to join the Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA).
The MPIA is a voluntary, alternative, and temporary mechanism designed to resolve WTO trade disputes among participating members given the issues within the appellate body in the Dispute Settlement system.
“I am pleased to inform that Barbados will become a party to the MPIA. This sends a signal that small vulnerable economies like Barbados care about the multilateral trading system and want to invest in it,” said Matthew Wilson, Barbados’ Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, WTO and other International Organizations in Geneva.
Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Christopher Sinckler, will be leading Barbados’ delegation to the 14th Ministerial Conference in Yaounde, Cameroon later this month.
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