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 ...

On Friday, March 5, USDA will release January 2021 trade data. This release will be special because in addition to new data, trade enthusiasts will get a new definition. USDA, in coordination with the ...

LONDON — Donald Trump wants World Trade Organization chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to play by his rules. She’s defying his wishes. A week before Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” tariff announcement, the ...

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

The World Trade Organization (WTO) had barely made it through U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term unscathed. Now, amid a looming wave of “reciprocal” tariffs and threats of retaliation, the world ...

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 ...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) warned on Wednesday that the outlook for global trade has “deteriorated sharply” in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs regime.

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.

WTO raises 2023 global trade growth f/cast to 1.7% (prev 1.0%) 2022 goods trade growth 2.7% vs Oct forecast of 3.5%; WTO chief urges countries to limit export curbs on food ...

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 ...