The European Union is considering a replacement for the now largely paralysed World Trade Organization (WTO), according to comments made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and ...

GENEVA (AP) — The World Trade Organization says the volume of trade in goods worldwide is likely to decrease by 0.2% this year due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s shifting tariff policies and a ...

A logo is seen at the World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters before a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse Under Biden and Trump, the U.S. has broken from its ...

GENEVA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Global tensions have started to fragment trade as rival trading relationships form, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Tuesday, but argued it is premature to ...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the sole global organization overseeing trade rules between nations. It operates based on agreements negotiated and signed by most trading nations, aiming to ...

The globalization boom that began in the 1990s didn’t happen by itself: It was lubricated by the biggest economies’ willingness to write, enforce and obey shared rules of engagement. That consensus is ...

WASHINGTON D.C. -- The Sino-American trade war could have drastic implications on the global economy and even split the world into two geopolitical trading blocs, according to the director general of ...

Across two new books, the ideal of a global free market buckles under pressure from protesters, politicians of all stripes and the Covid pandemic. Demonstrators protesting a 1999 meeting of the World ...

The World Trade Organization is failing in its mission. Established after World War II as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade along with the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, the ...

Discover the evolution of international trade agreements from mercantilism to modern global trade, highlighting trends in multilateral and regional arrangements.

Thirty years ago, the U.S. helped create the World Trade Organization, a group of countries linked by a common set of free trade agreements. But then the U.S., starting with the Obama administration, ...

The international economic architecture built after 1945 was based on a powerful idea: economic interdependence is crucial, if insufficient, for global peace and prosperity. The International Monetary ...