The announcement came after President Trump in April proposed a steep 46% tariff on Vietnamese imports; he later paused those ...

Global merchandise trade accelerated in the World Trade Organization’s latest assessment, with a surge in imports tied to ...

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 ...

French President Emmanuel Macron criticized tariffs imposed by powerful nations, labeling them as 'blackmail' at a global ...

European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has proposed to EU leaders the launch of a Europe-led initiative to establish ...

The European Union is considering a replacement for the now largely paralysed World Trade Organization (WTO), according to ...

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.

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 ...

As the World Trade Organization is increasingly sidelined, the future is going to look more like the past—and it won’t be a level playing field.

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 ...

More 164 member states' representatives, as part of the application process to head the World Trade Organization (WTO) as Director General in Geneva on July 16, 2020.

European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has proposed to EU leaders the launch of a Europe-led initiative to establish ...