The package of agreements reached at the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) held in Geneva from 12 to 17 June 2022 was the culmination of WTO members efforts to provide concrete trade-related responses to the important challenges facing the world today. The results achieved on fisheries subsidies, the WTOs response to the pandemic, food insecurity, e-commerce and other issues show that the multilateral trading system can respond to some of the contemporary challenges.