The head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said Thursday he is stepping down early, becoming the first in his position to do so in the 25-year-history of the trade body. “This is a decision ...

The current Trump tariffs may not be mimicking the pre-WWII period, but they are certainly reminiscent of that.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria is an economist and international development expert. Throughout her career, she spent 25 years at the World Bank, becoming its number two in 2007, and she has also ...

Even repentant “panda huggers” and liberal internationalists have acknowledged that the World Trade Organization (WTO) is no longer up to the task of dealing effectively with the full range of ...

Next week marks the beginning, finally, of the 12th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference (MC12). I say finally because they are usually held every two years, and this one was ...

Since the Second World War, the United States has been a driving force in shaping the global trading system. From the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to the creation of the World ...

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced a sharp break from U.S. trade policy, vowing it may ignore certain rulings by the World Trade Organization if those decisions infringe on U.S ...

Time for a World Trade Organization 2.0 Rather than leave the WTO, the U.S. can update the existing one—and threaten to exclude China.

Trade officials from the United States and China met in Stockholm on Tuesday in what was another round of talks in high-stakes trade negotiations.