World Trade Organization (WTO)

Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao attends a meeting with global business leaders at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, March 28, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Florence Lo/File Photo
China

China calls on WTO for greater oversight on unilateral tariffs

At a WTO ministerial meeting in France, Commerce Minister Wang Wentao reiterated China's stance on upholding a multilateral trading system and said WTO has the country's backing for a...

File Photo: A World Trade Organization (WTO) logo is pictured on their headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, June 3, 2016. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Asia

Hong Kong will file complaint to WTO on US tariffs, official says

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus shakes hand with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the director general of the World Trade Organization, during a meeting on the sidelines of World Economic Forum annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland on 24 January 2025. Photo: Courtesy
Bangladesh

WTO chief pledges to help Bangladesh in LDC graduation, attract supply chains

Incoming World Trade Organization President (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala speaks during an interview with Reuters in Potomac, Maryland, US, February 15, 2021. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Bangladesh

Bangladesh decentralised lots of supply chains: WTO DG

Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

WTO must prioritise core spirit of agriculture: Experts

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World+Biz

World Trade Report 2024 highlights trade’s role in supporting inclusiveness

New WTO data shows $9b mismatch in Bangladesh's 2023 clothing export figures
Bangladesh

New WTO data shows $9b mismatch in Bangladesh's 2023 clothing export figures

FILE PHOTO: A logo is pictured at the World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters ahead of the Ministerial Conference (MC12) in Geneva, Switzerland, June 12, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
Global Economy

WTO nears food pledges; India, Egypt, Sri Lanka hold out

Bangladesh pushes for stopping sudden ban on export of food products
Bangladesh

Bangladesh pushes for stopping sudden ban on export of food products

World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva Photo: Reuters
Global Economy

WTO postponement a 'significant blow' to possible Covid vaccine, fishing deals

Anne O Krueger. Illustration: TBS
Thoughts

The Bretton Woods credibility crisis

FILE PHOTO: Sugar apples are displayed in a market in Recife, June 30, 2014. REUTERS/Tony Gentile
China

Taiwan threatens to take China to WTO in new spat over fruit

A nurse prepares to administer the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine under the COVAX scheme against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) at the Eka Kotebe General Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 13, 2021. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo
Coronavirus chronicle

COVAX struggling as some nations bid more for scant vaccines, says WTO