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WTO backs agri reforms, split on DohaThe World Trade Organization reached deals on agricultural export subsidies, food aid and other issues on Saturday, capping a ministerial conference in the Kenyan capital where rich and poor countries had been split over the path of trade reform More… |
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WTO members cut import tariffs on over 200 IT productsMore than 50 members of the World Trade Organization signed an agreement on Wednesday to remove import tariffs on 201 information technology products, marking the first major global tariff-cutting deal in 19 years. The products co More… |
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WTO cuts world trade growth forecasts for 2015, 2016Global goods trade will grow by 3.3 per cent this year and by 4 per cent in 2016, less than previously forecast, mainly due to sluggish economic growth, the World Trade Organization said on Tuesday. "We expect trade to contin More… |
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WTO sees global trade pact within two weeksThe World Trade Organization said on Friday there was a "high probability" that a major deal on streamlining global customs rules will be implemented within two weeks after India and the US overcame a key impasse. " More… |
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WTO’s $1trn customs deal blocked by India’s demandsThe World Trade Organization failed on Thursday to reach a deal to standardise customs rules, which would have been the first global trade reform in two decades but was blocked by India's demands for concessions on agricultural stockpiling. More… |
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WTO overcomes last minute hitch to clinch key dealThe World Trade Organization (WTO) reached its first-ever trade reform deal on Saturday to the roar of approval from nearly 160 ministers who had gathered on the Indonesian island of Bali to decide on the make-or-break agreement that could add $ More… |
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Is WTO about to abandon dream of free trade?As it seeks a new chief to lead it out of a negotiating death-spiral, the World Trade Organization looks doomed to be fatally undermined by new global carve-ups that will leave many of the world's poorest sidelined. At its cre More… |
