Almost half of the new trade issues discussed in a WTO committee in 2020 mentioned food safety, according to a report on the meeting. Of the 36 new specific trade concerns (STCs) raised in the World ...

Editor’s Note: Joseph Stiglitz is a professor at Columbia University and a Nobel laureate in economics. Lori Wallach is director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. The opinions expressed in this ...

Global goods trade is slowing after a sharp rebound following the initial shock of the COVID-19 pandemic as production and supply disruptions and cooling demand for imports dampen growth, the World ...

GENEVA, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Top U.S. trade negotiator Katherine Tai on Thursday affirmed the Biden administration's commitment to the World Trade Organization (WTO), saying consensus was possible on ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with then-U.S Vice President Joe Biden inside the Great Hall of the People on December 4, 2013 in Beijing. With less than three months to go before Joe Biden ...

The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12), originally scheduled for Nur-Sultan in December 2019, is now slated for December 2021 in Geneva. With less than six months to ...

BEIJING, Oct 28 (Reuters) - China on Thursday called for the removal of "enormous" farm subsidies in some developed countries as part of Beijing's push for reform of the World Trade Organization.

"The level of inequity is quite high," Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the WTO, told CNBC on Thursday in an exclusive interview. The question of vaccine access comes shortly after health ...

International negotiators were set to discuss ending government subsidies that lead to overfishing at the Twelfth WTO Ministerial Conference, scheduled to run Nov. 30 through Dec. 3 in Geneva, ...

The World Trade Organization postponed its in-person ministerial conference in Geneva as Switzerland tightened travel restrictions following the discovery of a new strain of the coronavirus. WTO ...

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