Confederation of Swedish Enterprise’s priorities for the WTO in 2021 and beyond

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the primary forum for global trade policy. The WTO agreements guarantee rule-based trade and investment and create predictability and transparency for international trade. The WTO rules and principles have delivered tremendous benefits for trade between the members, which in turn has created jobs and prosperity and contributed to poverty-reduction around the world. However, the organization needs to be reformed and modernized in several ways to function better. In this paper, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise wants to highlight our priorities for the WTO in 2021 and beyond.