Fisheries agreement failed at WTO conference. Only a minimal consensus was reached on the moratorium on tariffs for electronic transmissions.
The German industry would have liked the practice, which has been common since 1998, to be without tariffs is set as the standard once and for all. The next WTO ministerial conference will take place in Cameroon, Africa, in 2026. The difficulty is that the WTO's now 166 countries always decide unanimously. So each country effectively has a veto. The European Union is negotiating as a bloc for all 27 member states.