International Trade Diversification Minister Jim Carr's office has confirmed he's attending the next gathering of 13 members of the World Trade Organization looking to reform the institution in the face of ongoing threats to the rules-based multilateral trading system.

Canada will join a dozen other WTO members on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 24...

The group that met in October included representatives of Australia, Brazil, Chile, the European Union, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Korea and Switzerland — trading partners described by Carr and WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo as "like-minded" regarding the urgent need to reform the global trading system...

This was excerpted from the 8 January 2019 edition of CBC News.