Brussels and Berlin have launched a new initiative aimed at bypassing the long-standing paralysis of the World Trade ...

World Trade Organization or WTO has stated yesterday that a sharp rise in new tariffs and the share of world trade covered by them between October 2024 and May 2025 have contributed to a volatile and ...

India hits back at the US with proposed retaliatory WTO tariffs over 25% auto duty, threatening $2.89 billion in exports amid ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has complained that Japan was not buying American rice, putting pressure on Tokyo as it struggles ...

The announcement came after President Trump in April proposed a steep 46% tariff on Vietnamese imports; he later paused those ...

A Brief History of the World Trade Organization The WTO was founded on January 1, 1995, following the Uruguay Round (the longest global trade agreement in modern history), which lasted from 1986 ...

Global merchandise trade accelerated in the World Trade Organization’s latest assessment, with a surge in imports tied to ...

Congress voted in 1994 to join the WTO, which replaced an earlier post-World War II pact called the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. So it's unclear what power Trump would have to pull out ...

Twenty years ago this weekend, 50,000 people converged on Seattle to protest the World Trade Organization, which was holding a ministerial-level meeting in the city, and a plan championed by the ...

President Trump, who disabled the World Trade Organization during his first term, is going after international free trade rules in place since the 1940s. Listen to this article · 5:30 min Learn more.

As the World Trade Organization is increasingly sidelined, the future is going to look more like the past—and it won’t be a level playing field.

More 164 member states' representatives, as part of the application process to head the World Trade Organization (WTO) as Director General in Geneva on July 16, 2020.