A discussion of the origins of tariffs in the US as well as the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the use ...

OPINION: China recently complained to the World Trade Organization about President Trump’s new tariffs, and although U.S. officials at the WTO agreed last week to meet with thei ...

GENEVA(Reuters) - From its sleek headquarters on the shores of Lake Geneva, the World Trade Organization hopes to quietly ride out the after-shocks of Trump administration tariffs whose ...

The move is part of a shift away from international institutions the Trump administration views as conflicting with its ...

Quinn Slobodian is a professor of international history at Boston University. He points out that when it helped found the WTO, the U.S. signed onto a system where it wouldn't always get its way. QUINN ...

the head of the World Trade Organization said. Trade in goods rebounded last year after a 2023 decline, and the WTO had expected to see a further pickup this year. But that outlook has changed ...

could lead to an overall contraction of around 1 percent in global merchandise trade volumes this year," the World Trade Organization director-general said in a statement. This, she said ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -The United States has paused contributions to the World Trade Organization, three trade sources told Reuters, as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration ramps up efforts to ...

GENEVA, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, expressed deep concern on Thursday over the decline in global trade and the potential for ...

WTO staff comfort themselves that the Trump administration, which quickly announced its plan to quit the World Health Organisation, has not so far said it will leave the trade body. Looking ...