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 ...

A central fault line in the coming years will be whether MFN and consensus survive in their current form. There is credible ...

For the best part of a century, the world trade has grown exponentially on the back of rule-based multilateral trading system. The year of 2025 witnessed the 30th anniversary of the World Trade ...

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 ...

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 ...

ICDX opened 2026 with 28,621 lots traded on day one, surpassing last year’s daily average and reinforcing its 20% growth ...

Regulator to consult on technology provider, request-for-quote system and pre-arranged transaction system use cases that challenge the trading venue regulatory perimeter. ESMA has set out plans to ...

As trade officials gather on the calm shores of Lake Geneva for the World Trade Organization’s long-delayed 12th ministerial conference, a perfect storm is brewing in the multilateral trading system.

India and Indonesia’s refusal to ratify the WTO’s fisheries subsidies agreement is weakening efforts to curb overfishing and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chinese Premier Li Qiang attends the 5th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Summit in conjunction with the 47th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre .