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World Trade Organization
April 2024
Dysfunction and division darken the WTO’s 30-year dream of free trade
As the organisation’s anniversary nears, borders around the world are closing again
February 2024
Business live
Housebuilder shares fall as competition watchdog opens investigation; UK retail sales slump eases – as it happened
Fair Access
WTO fails to reach agreement on providing global access to Covid treatments
January 2024
Seascape: the state of our oceans
Tories urged to end ‘idiotic’ £1.8bn tax break for UK fishing fleet
Conservationists call for end to subsidies that make up 15% to 18% of industry’s income and threaten to ‘empty the ocean of fish’
December 2023
WTO chief urges countries to prioritise subsidies that tackle climate crisis
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says current incentives are distorting world trade and hampering fight against climate breakdown
October 2023
Australia and China suspend WTO wine tariff dispute before Anthony Albanese’s trip to Beijing
WTO slashes growth forecast for global goods trade by more than 50%
September 2023
Australian government says ‘yeah, no’ to deal with China to drop wine tariffs
Reported package offer from Beijing was attempt to ‘meet Australian side halfway’ but Australia sees issues as ‘entirely separate matters’
July 2023
Ron DeSantis says he will try to revoke China’s trade status if elected president
Republican governor of Florida says he would take ‘executive action as appropriate’ to revoke Beijing’s legal designation
April 2023
The world desperately needs a fairer economy – here’s how we can make that happen
Mia Mottley and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Australian winemakers hopeful of breakthrough on $1.2bn China trade but still plan to diversify markets
December 2022
Australia and China team up to protest WTO blockages caused by US vetoes on appeal body
Australia seeks direct resolution of trade dispute with China before WTO ruling
October 2022
US Covid recovery in ‘jeopardy’ unless poorer countries helped, group warns
Congressional group writes letter urging Biden to extend WTO agreement aimed at easing generic vaccine exports
September 2022
Other lives
Jeremy Hobbs obituary
Other lives:
Executive director of Oxfam International dedicated to tackling the root causes of poverty
July 2022
Australian trade minister offers ‘compromise’ with China over anti-dumping tariffs
Australia is proceeding with trade disputes in WTO but Don Farrell says other options may emerge in talks between two countries
June 2022
Seascape: the state of our oceans
First WTO deal on fishing subsidies hailed as historic despite ‘big holes’
The WTO, with its ‘market knows best’ ideology, has failed. It’s time to bury it
Nick Dearden
Economics viewpoint
The WTO faces a make or break week over vaccines
Larry Elliott Economics editor
Project Syndicate economists
Davos 2022 meeting was a missed opportunity over globalisation
Joseph Stiglitz
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