The Japanese and U.S. governments Thursday announced an action plan for a proposed multilateral trade agreement to ensure stable supplies of critical minerals. The two sides also signed a memorandum o ...

Director General of the World Trade Organisation Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has updated member countries on final preparations for the upcoming 14th WTO Ministerial from 26th to 29th March in Cameroon, and ...

In an op-ed published by The Interpreter, Ryan Mulholland and Natalie Baker make the case for how foreign governments can collaboratively shape the future, instead of facing off against the coercive ...

International trade since World War II Following World War II, countries started to reduce trade barriers through a series of multilateral agreements. For instance, in 1947, 23 countries agreed to ...

BEIJING — China sees an opening to turn President Donald Trump’s tariffs to its advantage by reshaping global trade in ways that would insulate its $19 trillion economy from U.S. pressure far into the ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ meeting on the 31st, “Let us together safeguard the multilateral trade system and practice true ...

India has embarked upon striking more bilateral free trade agreements. But the country remains cautious and defensive in its negotiations with the United States, risking the brunt of punitive tariffs ...

New York: During a meeting of BRICS foreign ministers at the UN General Assembly, India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar emphasized the need for the bloc to uphold the multilateral trading ...

By any measure, the upcoming WTO Ministerial Conference (MC14), scheduled for 26 to 29 March 2026 in Yaounde, Cameroon, is expected to be a watershed moment for the multilateral trading system (MTS), ...

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