A Brief History of the World Trade Organization The WTO was founded on January 1, 1995, following the Uruguay Round (the longest global trade agreement in modern history), which lasted from 1986 ...

History of the World Trade Organization The World Trade Organization (WTO) was born out of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which was established in 1947.

Brussels and Berlin have launched a new initiative aimed at bypassing the long-standing paralysis of the World Trade ...

I was present at the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Marrakech, in 1994. I witnessed the runup in Geneva, where representatives of 123 countries finally nailed the deal after ...

On November 30, 1999, Seattle was overtaken by a global protest on the occasion of a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the city. ... An old UW building where the ‘Boys in the Boat’ hung ...

World Trade Organization slightly raises 2024 goods trade forecast but wary of potential setbacks ... At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.

It is time to ask: For the U.S., does the international law of the World Trade Organization still exist? As part of an escalating tit-for-tat of trade restrictions between the U.S. and China, the ...

His latest book, Industrial Policy, National Security, and the Perilous Plight of the WTO, should be required reading for trade experts and others trying to make sense of trade policy today. It tells ...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director general of the World Trade Organization, speaks during the opening ceremony of the WTO's ministerial meeting in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates on Feb. 26.