The European Union is heavily reliant – for its growth, prosperity, and economic stability – on a functioning multilateral trading system. Since 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has embodied ...

International trade has faced multiple shocks in recent years, making the need to reform the architecture of global trade more urgent than ever. Aligning new trade rules with global net-zero ambitions ...

America’s Asia Pacific allies have rejected Donald Trump’s trade policies and moved ahead on their own. At the APEC summit in Danang, Trump doubled down on his message of “America First” and ...

Singapore has inked a multilateral trade pact with Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, that aims to ease market access and explore opportunities in e-commerce and technology innovation, amongst others.

THE IDEA that global trade is waning has become widely accepted. On the surface, it seems plausible amid a pandemic and talk of decoupling among the leading economies. And the sense of slippage has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot visits China BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged ...

After two COVID-19-related postponements, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) 12th ministerial conference (MC12) was held in Geneva from 12–17 June 2022. Expectations for a successful meeting were low ...

Perusing the coverage of President Donald J. Trump’s first ten months in office, a reader could easily conclude that the global trading system, which has been in existence essentially since 1945, is ...

Global trade tensions that are hitting growth and investment The global economy is expected to achieve moderate but fragile growth over the coming two years. The OECD's Secretary General Angel Gurria ...

Ambassador Lighthizer recently resurrected an issue that academics have debated in the past, but which has not generally been a subject of U.S. policy debate—whether the pursuit of regional or ...

Mariana Ceratti/World Bank | The Port of Salvador in All Saints Bay, Bahia, handles both cargo and cruise ships. Despite the improved economic growth, risks to the economic outlook are rising, the ...