United States’ Acceptance of Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies Excite Okonjo-Iweala

The Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has expressed delight over the United States’ formal acceptance of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies.

According to a statement from the global trade body Wednesday, the United States deposited its instrument of acceptance for the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies on April 11, making it the fourth WTO member, and the first among the large fishing nations, to do so.