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 ...

The shared commitment of Global South countries to defending the multilateral trading system has become a major force ...

For the best part of a century, the world trade has grown exponentially on the back of rule-based multilateral trading system. The year of 2025 witnessed the 30th anniversary of the World Trade ...

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 ...

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 ...

Regulator to consult on technology provider, request-for-quote system and pre-arranged transaction system use cases that challenge the trading venue regulatory perimeter. ESMA has set out plans to ...

A central fault line in the coming years will be whether MFN and consensus survive in their current form. There is credible ...

China's food imports have increased significantly since the nation joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. Annual imports and net imports of food reached US$160 and US$93 billion, ...

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 ...

The international economic architecture built after 1945 was based on a powerful idea: economic interdependence is crucial, if insufficient, for global peace and prosperity. The International Monetary ...

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 ...