Discover the evolution of international trade agreements from mercantilism to modern global trade, highlighting trends in multilateral and regional arrangements.

In 2025, multilateral trade rules weakened as the US raised tariffs, yet global trade stayed resilient, led by strong supply ...

THE IDEA that global trade is waning has become widely accepted. On the surface, it seems plausible amid a pandemic and talk of decoupling among the leading economies. And the sense of slippage has ...

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 ...

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The Director-General of the World Trade Organization is sounding despondent after the latest setback to the December 2013 Bali Agreement. Meanwhile, a survey of exporters has given some endorsement ...

America’s Asia Pacific allies have rejected Donald Trump’s trade policies and moved ahead on their own. At the APEC summit in Danang, Trump doubled down on his message of “America First” and ...

Trade ministers from over 150 countries descend on Bali, Indonesia, this week to attend the most important World Trade Organization meeting in years. At stake is not only a package of measures to ...

There is no economic reason for the Trump administration's hostility to trade agreements. There are a few political reasons, however. An official and a journalist chat after a July 25, 2016 news ...

After two COVID-19-related postponements, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) 12th ministerial conference (MC12) was held in Geneva from 12–17 June 2022. Expectations for a successful meeting were low ...

Daniella served as a Jay Van Andel Senior Analyst in Trade Policy. Despite more than five decades of evidence demon­strating the gains from liberalizing trade, the impact of international trade and ...

UKRAINE, LONG PULLED back and forth between east and west, is feeling the tug again, this time between rival trade blocks. Next month it hopes to sign a free-trade agreement with the European Union.