June 3 — A WTO mini-ministerial met in Paris with ministers or representatives
from more than 20 members, including China, the US, the EU, Australia, Brazil
and the UK; WTO director-general Okonjo-Iweala attended. China's international
trade negotiator and MOFCOM vice minister Li Chenggang said reform should be
centered on development and that multilateral rules should be used to better
achieve trade-led development, advocating trade‑investment integration to
support industrialization and tighter policy coordination in digital and green
economic sectors. China backed discussions on fair competition — including
constraints on market‑distorting industrial subsidies and improved policy
transparency to strengthen multilateral disciplines and coordination — and urged
a swift multilateral consensus to extend the WTO moratorium on customs duties on
electronic transmissions.
