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 ...

FILE PHOTO: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director general of the World Trade Organization attends an interview with Reuters in Geneva, Switzerland, September 2, 2025. REUTERS/Cecile Mantovani/File Photo ...

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 ...

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, ...

On February 2, 2023, the European Securities and Markets Authority published a final report and an Opinion on the trading venue perimeter. The Opinion clarifies the definition of multilateral systems ...

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 ...

Today the world is on a knife edge - war and conflict are piercing the heart of our multilateral system and our global confidence. Russia’s war against Ukraine, the war in Gaza and the crisis in the ...

Rising external imbalances in the Asia Pacific are again threatening regional and global financial stability. With the United States retreating from trade liberalisation, APEC must use its unique ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - China's President Xi Jinping called for support for the international system centred around the United Nations, trade and the rule of law as he continued on a Southeast Asian ...

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 ...

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 ...