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April 2024

  • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO) and Member of Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum attends attends a session at the 51st annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP)

    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

  • Builders on a building site.

    Business live
    Housebuilder shares fall as competition watchdog opens investigation; UK retail sales slump eases – as it happened

  • Soweto residents walk in front of an informative graffiti art work educating people about the dangers of the coronavirus.

    Fair Access
    WTO fails to reach agreement on providing global access to Covid treatments

January 2024

  • Close up of nets as seagulls follow a prawn trawler

    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

  • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

    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

  • Anthony Albanese and Xi Jinping

    Australia and China suspend WTO wine tariff dispute before Anthony Albanese’s trip to Beijing

  • A woman rides an electric scooter next to a construction site of a housing and commercial establishment in Beijing, China

    WTO slashes growth forecast for global goods trade by more than 50%

September 2023

  • Penfolds Grange red wine on sale in Sydney

    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

  • Florida Governor and 2024 Republican Presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis speaks with voters and residents in border-adjacent communities during a campaign event in Eagle Pass, Texas, on June 26, 2023. Boycotting a beer, attacking products celebrating the LGBTQ community, and criticizing shareholders for promoting diversity: In the face of growing criticism from conservatives, American companies are backtracking on progressive corporate initiatives.

    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

  • A government food distribution point in Peshawar, Pakistan, 10 April 2023

    The world desperately needs a fairer economy – here’s how we can make that happen

    Mia Mottley and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
  • Sunset on rolling hills of grape vines

    Australian winemakers hopeful of breakthrough on $1.2bn China trade but still plan to diversify markets

December 2022

  • World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (left) speaks to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a meeting at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, November 22, 2022. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

    Australia and China team up to protest WTO blockages caused by US vetoes on appeal body

  • A farmer sowing barley in a dusty field in a tractor

    Australia seeks direct resolution of trade dispute with China before WTO ruling

October 2022

  • Just 19% of people in low-income countries are vaccinated compared to 75% in high-income countries, according to the Multilateral Leaders Taskforce on Covid-19.

    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

  • Jeremy Hobbs nurtured a generation of Oxfam activists to be fearless against powerful interests.

    Other lives
    Jeremy Hobbs obituary

    Other lives: Executive director of Oxfam International dedicated to tackling the root causes of poverty

July 2022

  • a paddock of barley being harvested

    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

  • A trawler off the French coast

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    First WTO deal on fishing subsidies hailed as historic despite ‘big holes’

  • Nick Dearden

    The WTO, with its ‘market knows best’ ideology, has failed. It’s time to bury it

    Nick Dearden
  • Larry Elliott Economics editor

    Economics viewpoint
    The WTO faces a make or break week over vaccines

    Larry Elliott Economics editor
  • Joseph Stiglitz

    Project Syndicate economists
    Davos 2022 meeting was a missed opportunity over globalisation

    Joseph Stiglitz
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