GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Trade Organization sharply lowered its 2026 forecast for global merchandise trade volume growth to 0.5% on Tuesday, citing expected delayed impacts from U.S. President ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence could boost the value of trade in goods and services by nearly 40% by 2040, but without adequate policies it could also exacerbate economic divides, a new ...

New U.S. trade deals and tariffs are still unsettling global supply chains as the 2025 holiday season gets underway, with so-called friendshoring (sourcing from “friendly” countries) and nearshoring ...

Amid the headlines and noise of the latest tariffs from Washington and the growing fears about the state of global trade, a quiet movement to support free and open commerce is taking place in world ...

President Donald Trump’s return to the White House in 2025 triggered one of the most turbulent years for global trade in decades. A rapid rollout of tariffs on U.S. trading partners pushed import ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The head of the World Trade Organization said she is urging the U.S. and China to de-escalate trade tensions, warning that a decoupling by the world's two largest ...

GENEVA, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The share of global trade done on WTO terms has fallen to 72% and could fall further, amid the biggest disruption to the international trading system since World War Two, ...

We asked a group of experts to envision the future of supply chains and how changes to them will impact national economies. By The New York Times This feature is part of a series called Turning Points ...

Debates over world trade often conflate two distinct issues. The first is how to expand the efficiencies that occur when international trade is broadly balanced and countries are able to benefit from ...

Ambassador Greer is the U.S. trade representative. It must be an unwritten rule that international economic orders emerge at stately hotels. In 1944, as World War II raged, Allied representatives ...