<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>WTO seeks deal after 18-month deadlock</li></ul>



<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>China voices an objection to proposal</li></ul>



<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>Chief hopes for deal by June ministerial</li></ul>



<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>Recasts, adds China comment, bullets</li></ul>



By Emma Farge



GENEVA, May 6 (Reuters)&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;The first World Trade Organization meeting to discuss a draft agreement to temporarily waive intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines went &#8220;very well&#8221;, its chair said on Friday, although some members voiced reservations.



The WTO&#8217;s 164 members on Friday discussed the &#8220;outcome document&#8221; that stems from months of negotiations between the main parties &#8211; the United States, the European Union, India and South Africa &#8211; in an effort to break an 18-month deadlock over the issue.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?search=all%3AL2N2WV1EH&amp;linkedFromStory=true" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read full story</a>



&#8220;It went very well and here&#8217;s why I say that. No member rejected the outcome as completely unacceptable,&#8221; Ambassador Lansana Gberie from Sierra Leone, who chairs the council tasked with finding an agreement on the waiver, told Reuters after the closed-door meeting.



&#8220;Most said this could be developed into a negotiating text and that&#8217;s the trajectory we have to follow.&#8221;



However, two Geneva trade sources said after the meeting that some delegations had said the proposal fell short since it was too narrowly focused on vaccines, echoing criticism from some civil society groups.



And while China voiced broad support for the document it also raised an objection to some of the wording that appeared to exclude it from the waiver on the basis of its global share of vaccine exports, the two sources said.



China&#8217;s statement sent by its WTO mission in Geneva called the wording &#8220;an unreasonable and arbitrary criterion&#8221;.



The waiver idea, proposed by India and South Africa in October 2020, is supported by the majority of members of the global trade body.



But some wealthy countries including Britain and Switzerland have in the past raised objections on grounds that it could harm pharmaceutical research.



WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who has been involved in brokering the talks and wants a deal by the June ministerial conference, says an agreement would be &#8220;hugely important&#8221;.



The new draft deal, which has unresolved areas, must pass by consensus and any member of the organisation has the right to a veto.



One delegate described Friday&#8217;s meeting as the moment the deal would &#8220;float or sink&#8221;.



Privately, some delegates have said a lack of public support for the deal by the main negotiating parties has sapped confidence among other members.



(Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky and Edmund Blair)

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Last week, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala started the job as the first female, first African to lead the World Trade Organization. She comes as the role of the trade body has been questioned. How much power does she hold to fix things? Keith Rockwell, Spokesperson of WTO joins CNBC Africa for more.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges to global supply chains with the World Trade Organization (WTO) reporting a drop in trade of between 13 per cent and 32 per cent in Africa but could revival present an opportunity for Africa to build stronger trade institutions? Zachary Kaplan, Head of Sustainable Business Group at Dai Global.

COVID-19: How Africa can rebuild trade institutions for a robust recovery

The global economy faces profound uncertainties, particularly in the face of the&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/africa/covid-19">COVID-19</a>&nbsp;pandemic. In addition, faith in the efficacy of international bodies such as the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/whatis_e.htm">World Trade Organisation</a>&nbsp;(WTO) has been weakened by a power struggle between China and the US.



As the process for appointing a new head of the organisation moves into its final phase, it’s worth considering what front runner Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala could bring to the complex role of managing an international organisation, including designing and implementing reforms.



The WTO&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/whatis_e.htm">describes itself</a>&nbsp;as a forum for governments to negotiate trade agreements. A key objective of the WTO is the liberalisation of trade for the mutual benefit of its members. This concept has become a divisive issue as a result of the perceived imbalances in the rights and obligations of members and the perceived uneven distribution of the gains from trade.



Okonjo-Iweala would be in a position to use her multifaceted experiences to energise the WTO’s 164 members to work harder to achieve the value of the multilateral trade systems. Given her experience in being able to diplomatically manage people and institutions resistant to change, she could also provide the impetus for member countries to overcome the challenges that have paralysed the trade organisation for years.



Okonjo-Iweala has gained acute negotiation skills from her experiences in negotiating with institutions and countries, as she did when she negotiated for Nigeria’s debts relief.



In addition, Okonjo-Iweala has held top positions in several international bodies, including corporates as well as not for profit organisations. Her ability to serve in senior positions in these disparate cultural settings means that she will be able to navigate the complex terrain of an organisation that has a mandate to serve the interests of 164 member states.



Her international exposure also means that she has developed an extensive network across the globe which she is bound to call on in the WTO job.



In addition, Okonjo-Iweala has a proven track record in carrying out successful reforms both at the World Bank and as the&nbsp;<a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reforming-unreformable">finance minister in Nigeria</a>. Carrying out these reforms would have required negotiating with various constituencies.



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-early-days">The early days</h2>



Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was born to a royal family of Chukwuka and Kamene Okonjo on 13 June 1954, in Delta State, Nigeria. Her parents were both professors at the University of Ibadan. She completed secondary school at the International School Ibadan and St. Anne’s School, Molete, Ibadan. The young Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala proceeded to Harvard University. She graduated in 1977 with honours in economics. She went on to complete a PhD in regional economics and development at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.



Okonjo-Iweala’s professional life points to decades in the thick of economic policy – global as well as local.



She worked for many years at the World Bank where she started as an intern. After gaining her PhD she returned to the bank to work as a development economist. She was to spend 25 years at the institution, rising to the position of vice president.



Okonjo-Iweala spearheaded several World Bank initiatives to assist low income countries during the&nbsp;<a href="https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16505?locale-attribute=en">2008-2009 food and financial crises</a>. For example, as managing director of the World Bank from 2007 to 2011, she had oversight responsibility for the World Bank’s $81 billion operational portfolio in Africa, South Asia, Europe and Central Asia.



In 2010, she was chair of the World Bank’s successful drive to raise $49.3 billion in grants and low interest credit for the poorest countries in the world.



<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/apr/16/world-bank-president-jim-kim">In 2012</a>&nbsp;she became the first female and black candidate to contest for the presidency of World Bank Group. She lost to Jim Yong Kim, the president of Dartmouth College.



Having worked for about 25 years in the World Bank, negotiating and pushing for progressive agreement and development, Okonjo-Iweala has developed keenly honed negotiation skills.



In addition, she is an outsider to the WTO who offers the comprehensive skills and experience needed to shake up the organisation and bring progress to world trade. Her African origin places her on political neutral ground, enabling her, among other things, to objectively mediate issues between China and US.



These skills and traits also mean that she’s in a strong position to build a trade institution where there is greater trust among its members.



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-her-service-to-nigeria">Her service to Nigeria</h2>



In 2003, she was appointed Nigeria’s minister of finance by the then President Olusegun Obasanjo. She became the first female finance minister and had several reforms to her credit.



As minister of finance in Nigeria, she spearheaded negotiations with the Paris Club of Creditors&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cgdev.org/topics/nigerian-debt-relief#:%7E:text=In%20October%202005%2C%20Nigeria%20and,of%20any%20Paris%20Club%20debt.">that led to the wiping out of $30 billion of Nigeria’s debt</a>, including the outright cancellation of $18 billion.



She had several battles with powerful political interests in Nigeria. She slashed the number of agencies in the country. She drastically cut fuel subsidies in a subsidy scheme that was enmeshed in a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/19/nigeria-fuel-subsidy-scheme-corruption">difficult web of corruption</a>&nbsp;that made the country lose $6.8bn over a three-year period.



Okonjo-Iweala introduced practical economic reforms which changed the worldview of Nigeria as seemingly hopeless and comatose. She turned around the largest economy in Africa.



Nigeria, for the first time in history, had electronic financial management reforms. She also introduced macroeconomic reforms and many policy strategies like a medium term expenditure framework and medium term budgeting.



For a brief period in 2006, Okonjo-Iweala served as Nigeria’s first female minister of foreign affairs. After resigning from government she set up a research organisation, NOI Polls.



In 2011 she was reappointed as minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy by the then President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan. She served in the position until 2015. In that time, Nigeria’s economic growth rate remained at an average of 6% per annum.



Under her leadership, Nigeria’s Bureau of Statistics&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-04-06/nigerian-economy-overtakes-south-africa-s-on-rebased-gdp">rebased the gross domestic product</a>for the time first in 24 years. This saw Nigeria emerge as the largest economy in Africa. She took a lot of heat for the government’s decision to remove the fuel subsidy. Protests ensued and the policy was reversed.



I have no doubt in my mind that Okonjo-Iweala would be an exemplary leader of the global trade organisation because she would balance policies between the advanced economies and developing ones to achieve sustainable global economic growth and development.

Okonjo-Iweala

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: how global and local experience would play out in WTO top job

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Africa’s largest global trading partner is China; however the vulnerability of global supply chains has intensified with onslaught of the U.S-China trade tensions.

How the U.S-China trade tensions impacts Africa’s free trade agreement

The next director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will replace Brazilian Roberto de Azevedo, who has served since 2013 and plans to step down at the end of August, a year before the conclusion of his term.



Of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/wto-leadership-contenders-auditions-global-trade-body-200715090700814.html">eight candidates</a>&nbsp;who have thrown their hats into the ring, three are from Africa. They are the former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; the former Kenyan foreign minister Amina Mohamed, who also previously served as chairperson of the WTO General Council; and Abdel-Hamid Mamdouhm, an Egyptian lawyer who is also an erstwhile WTO official.



The WTO does not operate on the basis of a regional rotation principle. But there is recognition that it has never been led by an African since its creation in 1995. Africa represents a key bloc within the WTO.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wto.org/">It accounts</a>&nbsp;for nearly 27% of membership and 35% of members from developing countries.



Past directors-general have come from Europe, Oceania, Asia and South America.



The challenges facing the WTO are numerous and complex. Since&nbsp;<a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2008/07/267842-collapse-doha-round-global-trade-talks-disappointing-says-ban">the collapse</a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dda_e/update_e.htm">Doha Round of trade talks</a>, the multilateral trade system has stalled and it needs to be revived. Launched in 2001, the Doha Round failed to respond to the development interests of poor countries, most of which are African.



The organisation has also been at the receiving end of&nbsp;<a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/09/trumps-real-trade-war-is-being-waged-on-the-wto/">persistent attacks</a>&nbsp;from the Trump administration, which has accused it of failing to protect American interests. This has been aggravated by trade wars between the US and China. And the organisation’s dispute settlement system has been&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50736344">paralysed</a>&nbsp;by the refusal of the US to approve appointments of judges to its appellate body.



Concerns have also been voiced by the US, Japan and the European Union (EU) about the WTO’s rules. There’s a strong lobby to have them modernised to take account of the impact of the rise of developing countries and Chinese industrial subsidies. The EU, in particular, has protested against the overuse of the “special and differential treatment” rules designed to afford poor nations more favourable trade terms,&nbsp;<a href="https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2005/april/tradoc_122306.pdf">regarding this as creating a second tier membership</a>.



What’s more, Washington, Brussels and Tokyo have jointly formulated proposals&nbsp;<a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3046108/us-eu-and-japan-target-china-new-global-trade-rules">to curtail state support to businesses and industries</a>.



Also, the WTO has had to grapple with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news20_e/serv_29may20_e.htm">massive dislocations</a>&nbsp;in international trade brought about by the coronavirus global pandemic.



In our view, of the three African contenders, none is better qualified than Okonjo-Iweala to lead the WTO in the next phase of its 25-year history, which is poised to be the most fractious and challenging.



The WTO plays an important confidence-building role in the global economy, and the interests of poor countries will be best served in a stronger multilateral trading system that is responsive to their development concerns.



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">What’s needed</h2>



The nature of the institution requires a leader with significant political heft and who commands the respect of all member countries, rich and poor.



The WTO’s director-general and secretariat wield&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wto.org/">very limited executive power</a>. They can inform, manage, coax and oversee. But they can’t decide. Decision-making in the WTO is consensus-driven, and any member country can scupper a trade deal.



This is unlike the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/leadership">World Bank</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.imf.org/en/About">International Monetary Fund</a>, where decision-making is based on shareholding, which is dominated by industrialised nations.



Okonjo-Iweala is suitably qualified to serve at the helm of the institution. She is a Harvard-educated political heavy-hitter with the skill and experience to cajole, knock heads together and break logjams. She is regarded as a consensus builder who enjoys the confidence of governments, business and multilateral institutions. As Nigeria’s finance minister,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/africa-eyes-the-worlds-top-trade-job-wto-ngozi-okonjo-iweala-but-spars-over-its-candidate/">she successfully spearheaded </a>&nbsp;the negotiation of an $18 billion debt write-off for the country with the Paris Club creditor nations.



Her political acumen and extensive negotiating skills could contribute towards restoring the multilateral trade agenda. This has collapsed amid the Trump administration’s hostility towards multilateralism.



With her origins from a neutral developing country, she could be the right candidate the embattled WTO needs to broker a truce between the US and China and end their trade conflict, which has led to institutional collapse.



Okonjo-Iweala also boasts a credible track record of economic reform and political sway.



Following a long stint as a senior executive at the World Bank, she twice served as Nigeria’s finance minister between 2003 and 2015. During this period, she took on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/africa-eyes-the-worlds-top-trade-job-wto-ngozi-okonjo-iweala-but-spars-over-its-candidate/">vested interests and implemented far-reaching reforms</a>. These included overhauling a corrupt fuel-subsidy scheme, cutting delays at the country’s ports, creating an oil fund to stabilise the economy, increasing transparency by publishing the government’s monthly finances, and introducing an electronic tax system that curbed illegal diversion of funds.



Okonjo-Iweala does not have WTO experience. But she knows and understands the workings of multilateral institutions, honed over many years as an international public servant. She is a seasoned global finance expert, economist and development practitioner with decades of international experience.



Her global finance expertise, in particular, would serve the WTO well given the nexus between trade and finance in the world economy, accentuated by the current economic crisis. By not being a WTO insider, she would bring a much-needed fresh perspective to the institution.



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Crossroads</h2>



The WTO is at a crossroads. Since the launch of the Doha development agenda, it has been buffeted by one crisis after another. This has occurred at a time when the drivers of world trade have been undergoing seismic transformations, stemming from the ascent of new actors, notably China, the advent of new technologies and production methods, and changes in global demographics.



Compounding the institutional sclerosis has been the growing rivalry between the US and China, which has brought the institution to a halt.



In the absence of a multilateral architecture to govern trade, there has been a surge in tit-for-tat economic policies, which have&nbsp;<a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/07/10/the-post-covid-19-world-economic-nationalism-triumphant/">disrupted supply chains and stifled trade and investment flows</a>.



These are desperate and perilous times for the WTO and they call for a credible and effective leader who is qualified to lead the institution at this critical point in its history. Okonjo-Iweala fits the bill. African countries must coalesce around and actively champion her candidacy.

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Why one of three African candidates fits the bill as the new head of the WTO

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Yesterday afternoon at least two of the African candidates for the top job at the World Trade Organization went in for their interviews before delegates at its headquarters in Geneva in Switzerland. Kenyan government minister Amina Mohamed and former Nigerian finance Ngozi Okonjo Iweala 15 minutes each to put forward their case for the job. Then each was grilled for 75 minutes by delegates about their vision for the future of world trade. John Stremlau, Honorary Professor of International Relations joins CNBC Africa for more.

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Eight candidates are going head-to-head for the top position at the World Trade Organization with nominations coming from the United Kingdom, Mexico, Moldova, Korea, Saudi Arabia, and three entries from Africa. Trudi Hartzenberg, Executive Director of the Trade Law Centre joins CNBC Africa to talk about the chances of the African candidates vying for the position.

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At least two of the African candidates for the top job at the World Trade Organization will go for their interviews before delegates at its headquarters in Geneva in Switzerland today. Kenyan government minister Amina Mohamed and former Nigerian finance Ngozi Okonjo Iweala 15 minutes each to put forward their case for the job. Then each will be grilled for 75 minutes by delegates about their vision for the future of world trade. CNBC Africa&#8217;s Chris Bishop took a look at the background. International Relations Analyst, Brook Spector unpacks this further.

Here is what awaits the next WTO leader

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A major milestone is taking place in the global economic arena today as the World Trade Organisation appellate body will cease to exist. This means that the organisation will lose its ability to intervene in trade wars and will no longer act as a global trade arbiter. Joshua Setipa, former Senior Advisor to the Director General of the World Trade Organization joins CNBC Africa for more.

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Source: <a href="http://https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/14/nigeria-is-leading-on-pan-african-free-trade-bank-chief-says.html">Nigeria is leading on pan-African trade, despite not even signing up to the deal: Bank chief</a>
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<li>Nigeria is in a position of leadership on a pan-African trade deal despite not signing up, the managing director of Ecobank Nigeria told CNBC.</li>
<li>The African Union is proposing a continent-wide trading bloc that would result in the largest free trade area in terms of participating countries since the formation of the World Trade Organization.</li>
<li>Kenya and Ghana ratified the agreement last week, while Ethiopia&#8217;s Prime Minister has said that his country is ready to follow suit.</li>
</ul>
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Nigeria is in a position of leadership on a proposed Africa-wide trading bloc despite not having signed up to the agreement, the managing director of commercial lender Ecobank Nigeria told CNBC.
Nigeria has &#8220;shifted the balance of power,&#8221; and &#8220;put itself in the situation where they now have the call,&#8221; Charles Kie said in an interview Friday.
In March, <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/105076688?__source=cnbcafrica|inline|story|&amp;par=cnbcafrica &amp;doc="> 
44 members of the 55-nation African Union signed up to the Continental Free Trade Area 
</a> (CFTA), an agreement which proposes a common market across the African continent. The new bloc would result in the largest free trade area in terms of participating countries since the formation of the <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/104412796?__source=cnbcafrica|inline|story|&amp;par=cnbcafrica &amp;doc="> 
World Trade Organization 
</a>.
But Nigeria and South Africa, the region&#8217;s two largest economies, did not get on board, <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/105094579?__source=cnbcafrica|inline|story|&amp;par=cnbcafrica &amp;doc="> 
citing concerns over safeguarding jobs and cheap Chinese goods flooding the market 
</a>.
The summit took place in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. Rwanda&#8217;s President Paul Kagame is also chair of the African Union for 2018. Meanwhile, Nigeria&#8217;s President Muhammadu Buhari did not attend the event.
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&#8220;When you are the largest economy on the continent, and it&#8217;s a tiny, small country like Rwanda who is leading the conversation on the CFTA, there&#8217;s a very simple question that you ask yourself: &#8216;Where is your leadership?'&#8221; Kie said.
By initially turning down the deal, Nigeria has the &#8220;leverage&#8221; to &#8220;get some of the conditions that they think are critical for the economy to now be put on the table,&#8221; Kie explained. &#8220;They (won&#8217;t) just absorb the impact of the decision that was taken, but they&#8217;re also part of the solutions that are going to come.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m just making a pure and basic analysis of the powers in presence, and I&#8217;m looking at what it entails,&#8221; he said. &#8220;All of this is political, it&#8217;s the heads of state that sign these agreements.&#8221;
Kie was confident that Nigeria would eventually subscribe to the deal.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t have any doubt that Nigeria will join&#8221; the free trade agreement in its own time, he said. &#8220;Nobody will doubt the interests of this for the continent.&#8221;
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Kenya and Ghana, both African economies boasting strong fundamentals, ratified the agreement last week. Ethiopia&#8217;s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who leads the east African powerhouse economy which has seen double-digit GDP (gross domestic product) growth as recently as 2017, said on Monday that his country is ready to follow suit.
Intra-African trade currently comprises less than 20 percent of the continent&#8217;s total, with countries often focussed on exporting commodities to former colonial powers instead. It is hoped that the new free trade deal will shift emphasis away from this and towards manufacturing.
The African Union posits the agreement as uniting a market of 1.2 billion people with a combined gross domestic product of $2.5 trillion.
&#8220;We have to make sure that the rules of engagement when it comes to the free trade area are clearly defined,&#8221; both in terms of protecting national economies and establishing their manufacturing capacities, Kie said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not going to come overnight.&#8221;

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