Trade : Trump declares 2 April "Liberation Day in America", WTO silent (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The United States is understood to have claimed that the World Trade Organization has become irrelevant, as it failed to deliver on WTO reforms, at an official meeting on 21 March of the Group of 20 (G20) Trade and Investment Working Group in Pretoria, South Africa, said people familiar with the development.

Trade : India to host workshop on food insecurity at WTO (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The chair of the World Trade Organization's General Council (GC) on 21 March informed members that Pakistan's trade envoy, Ambassador Ali Sarfaraz Hussain, will be formally appointed as the chair of the Doha agriculture negotiating body at its upcoming meeting this week, said people familiar with the development.

US : IQVIA report suggests regulatory reform to fill "biosimilar void" (PRIV)
(Chetali Rao and K M Gopakumar, New Delhi)
The recent report from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Sciences, titled "Assessing the Biosimilar Void in the US", proposes regulatory reform as the solution to fill the biosimilar void.

UN : Crisis deepens in DRC as funding cuts hit critical humanitarian aid (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
Critical funding gaps are severely hampering humanitarian efforts in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and beyond, leaving thousands without life-saving aid and pushing an already dire humanitarian situation closer to catastrophe, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has warned.