Free trade seems to have few supporters these days. Though actual trade volumes are recovering from the post-crisis recession and drop in commodity prices, “globalization” has become increasingly ...

FILE PHOTO: French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot visits China BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged Britain and the European Union on Tuesday to safeguard multilateral trading ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said on Monday that some of the United States' criticisms of the multilateral trading system were valid. "I think that a lot of the ...

Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao met with Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell, who was leading a delegation to the China International Import Expo (CIIE), in Shanghai on Tuesday. The two ...

It is not every day that a former chief trade negotiator for the U.S. and the titular leader of the U.S. foreign policy establishment urges the abandonment of a rule-based international trading system ...

Today the world is on a knife edge - war and conflict are piercing the heart of our multilateral system and our global confidence. Russia’s war against Ukraine, the war in Gaza and the crisis in the ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Wednesday tariffs "hurt" the multilateral trading system as he hosted his Azerbaijani counterpart for talks in Beijing, state media said.

India and Indonesia’s refusal to ratify the WTO’s fisheries subsidies agreement is weakening efforts to curb overfishing and ...