On 30 March, Norway cosponsored a statement delivered by Ambassador Michel Punke of the United States on the deepening concerns regarding the nature and application of trade-restrictive measures taken by Argentina, which are adversely affecting imports into Argentina from a growing number of WTO Members. The other cosponsors were Australia, the European Union, Israel, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Panama, Switzerland, Chinese Taipei, Thailand and Turkey. In so doing, we emphasized that working together with our trading partners to address and resolve issues of mutual concern is what the WTO is all about, and we hope that Argentina will see the seriousness with which this large group of Members views Argentina’s import restrictions and requests that the restrictions be eliminated.
Read the Joint Statement on the US homepage.