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DAVOS 2023: WTO sticks with 1% projection for growth in global trade

The head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Friday it was sticking with its 1% projection for global trade growth in 2023 - for now.

Reuters · Jan 20, 2023

China eyes rule on office machines contradicting stance in WTO talks

GENEVA / BEIJING -- China has done an about-face since an October 2022 World Trade Organization meeting in which it clearly stated that it would not revise its standards to require office equipment such as multifunction printers to be designed and developed in China, it has been learned.

The Japan News/Yomiuri · Jan 13, 2023

WTO rejects US 'Made in China' labeling on Hong Kong goods

World Trade Organization arbitrators have concluded the United States violated its rules in requiring that products from Hong Kong be labeled as “Made in China.”

The Independent UK · Dec 22, 2022

WTO rules against Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs

The World Trade Organization has rejected the 2018 import taxes that then-President Donald Trump imposed on foreign steel and aluminum, saying they violated global trade rules

The Independent UK · Dec 9, 2022

Trump metal tariffs ruled in breach of global rules by WTO

The World Trade Organization ruled on Friday that U.S. tariffs imposed on steel and aluminium imports by then President Donald Trump contravened global trading rules in a judgment immediately criticised by Washington.

Reuters · Dec 9, 2022

Let the WTO referee carbon border taxes

Perhaps the most important task confronting the international order is the enforcement of national limits on greenhouse-gas emissions, such as those that were negotiated in the 2015 Paris agreement. Carbon border adjustments could give these limits teeth, but fair application requires a revived World Trade Organization.

Bangkok Post · Dec 7, 2022

EU takes China to WTO over Lithuania trade dispute

The European Union has announced that it's begun legal action at the World Trade Organization against China over what it says are import restrictions Beijing has imposed on Lithuania

The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2022

EXPLAINER: US-European differences on climate law persist

President Joe Biden is trying to allay concerns raised by French President Emmanuel Macron about a clean energy law that benefits electric vehicles and other products made in North America

The Independent UK · Dec 1, 2022

On US state visit, Macron to draw the line on American protectionism

President Emmanuel Macron begins his three-day state visit to the US on Wednesday bolstered by shared bilateral visions on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific. But President Joe Biden’s latest Inflation Reduction Act has alarmed the EU, and the French leader will have to stake a…

France 24 · Nov 29, 2022

Intellectual property waiver for COVID vaccines should be expanded to include treatments and tests

Global inequities in access to COVID vaccines have turned out to be a “catastrophic moral failure”, just as the World Health Organization warned they would in January 2021. Yet it took 20 months of negotiations for members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to agree to a limited relaxation of…

The Conversation · Nov 21, 2022