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

Heading into the final days before the July 9 deadline, negotiators are scrambling to come up with trade pacts ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Since his first term in 2017, President Donald Trump’s trade policy has had two dimensions: one familiar, one unfamiliar. The ...

The World Trade Organization says uncertainty about a possible trade war is already dragging down the world economy. The WTO issued the warning just before new U.S. tariffs on $34 billion of ...

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

The Omicron scare provided a face-saving way to cancel the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, scheduled to open Nov. 30 in Geneva. The session was headed for minimal results ...