The announcement was made in Geneva by WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who accepted the document from Julien Paluku ...

The WTO can then monitor and oversee these different agreements, facilitate negotiations of future agreements, and offer its dispute settlement mechanism for states participating in these blocs.

The World Trade Organization agreed on the first change to global trading rules in years on Friday as well as a deal to boost the supply of COVID-19 vaccines in a series of pledges that were heavy ...

Trade. WTO breaks negotiating slump with package of deals The deals breathe new life into the moribund organization, which previously had produced only one new multilateral agreement between all ...

The World Trade Organization can trace its roots back to end of World War II. In 1947, 23 nations came together to sign the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT. It went into effect in ...

No specific WTO provision relates to expelling a member. Expulsion would be possible under Article X of the WTO agreement, however, if two-thirds of the WTO’s current 164 members vote to alter ...

Some European Union leaders discussed a rethinking of the World Trade Organization, the entity at the center of the global ...

The language about how the TRIPS agreement does not prevent member states from taking measures to protect public health is misleading. This language is from the WTO’s Doha Public Health Declaration.

Amidst ongoing discussions for an interim trade agreement, the US has again raised concerns at the WTO regarding India's ...

There has been no agreement on the terms of a COVID-19 vaccine intellectual property deal among four key World Trade Organization members, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said, amid ...

For over 75 years, the multilateral trading system has helped ensure stability and order in the global economy. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and its successor, the World Trade ...

In twelve years, the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) dispute settlement system has emerged as one of the most robust instruments of international rule of law. Supporters say it has helped ...