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

President Trump, meanwhile, told reporters he has signed letters to 12 nations detailing new tariff levels under a “take it ...

India is ready to make trade deals in the national interest, but not just to meet deadlines, Trade Minister Piyush Goyal said ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

U.S. President Donald Trump has complained that Japan was not buying American rice, putting pressure on Tokyo as it struggles ...

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 ...