The World Trade Organization sharply cut its forecast for global merchandise trade from solid growth to a decline on Wednesday, saying further U.S. tariffs and spillover effects could lead to the ...

WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala warned that trade policy uncertainty is further weighing on projected trade growth this year. WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala warned Tuesday that ...

On April 14, the WTO released its Global Trade Outlook 2025 report and the main projections were negative. The WTO projected the amount of goods traded in 2025 would decline by 0.2 percent.

Li Chenggang has become the new international trade representative of China at a time when tensions between Beijing and Washington simmer as Trump and Xi go back and forth on tariffs ...

The World Trade Organization has reduced its global merchandise trade forecast, predicting a decline due to U.S. tariffs and spillover effects. This marks the steepest slump since the COVID pandemic.

Africa's trade prospects have dimmed in the face of rising global protectionism, with new tariffs from the United States and ...

Hwang Jau-yuan (黃昭元), a former justice on Taiwan’s Constitutional Court, has been appointed as Taiwan’s representative to the ...

Hwang Jau-yuan (黃昭元), a former Constitutional Court justice, has been appointed as Taiwan's representative to the WTO, the Presidential Office said yesterday. Hwang's appointment as representative to ...

The WTO said it expected commercial services trade to grow by 4.0% in 2025 and 4.1% in 2026, well below baseline projections of 5.1% and 4.8%. The expected downturn follows a strong 2024, when the ...