The WTO has deemed the impact of Trump's tariff overhaul and ongoing uncertainty a "crisis" and warned that if the situation deteriorates, trade flows could be reduced, leading to a 0.2 percent ...

The WTO's forecast does not cover services, but the WTO said tourist arrivals were likely to fall after tripling in the first seven months of 2022. ... All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes.

WTO flops, USA shrugs. WTO members had little to show for five days of talks in Abu Dhabi, other than the extension of a digital trade tariff moratorium that has been in place since 1998.

The WTO projected the amount of goods traded in 2025 would decline by 0.2 percent. This would be an almost 3% drop from what was projected before Trump enacted his sweeping tariffs.

The Geneva-based WTO expects the volume of world merchandise trade to decline by 0.2% in 2025 — almost three percentage points lower than it would have been without the U.S.-led trade war, ...

During the first half of 2024, the value of world merchandise trade gained only 0.1%, the WTO said, while trade in commercial services from January through March — the most recent quarter for ...

Thirty years ago, the U.S. helped create the World Trade Organization, a group of countries linked by a common set of free trade agreements. But then the U.S., starting with the Obama ...

On April 14, the WTO released its Global Trade Outlook 2025 report and the main projections were negative. The WTO projected the amount of goods traded in 2025 would decline by 0.2 percent.