Director General Adjunto Alan Wolff: El futuro pertenece a los acuerdos comerciales de geometrías variables
(World News Egypt)

My thanks to the American Association of Exporters and Importers for inviting the WTO to participate with the WCO in your 99th Annual Conference. The AAEI is very important to the WTO. The WTO exists solely to serve world trade, in which your members are heavily engaged. The topic you have chosen for us to address today is a very relevant one: What is the Future of Trade? Multilateral or Bilateral. The multilateral trading system - the rules incorporated into the WTO -- along with the contributions of the WCO, on the one hand, and regional and bilateral trade agreements, on the other, share the task of regulating global trade. They are complementary. It is not a choice of one or the other,...