Economist Richard Baldwin has argued the current trade disruption stems from the Trump administration’s “grievance doctrine”. This doctrine doesn’t view trade as an exchange between countries with ...

It is not every day that a former chief trade negotiator for the U.S. and the titular leader of the U.S. foreign policy establishment urges the abandonment of a rule-based international trading system ...

The UK has recognised Palestine as a state, acknowledging all the legal rights and obligations of statehood, and “expecting ...

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, ...

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WTO, UN climate talks have failed to address developing nations' concerns Aim is to launch new forum by COP30 in November, source says Developing nations worried about EU anti-deforestation law, ...

Recent surges in trade policy uncertainty highlight the fragility of global supply chains, prompting businesses to consider reshoring—moving production from abroad to domestic locations. Reshoring can ...

During the Cold War, it was a type of folk wisdom, if not a fairy tale, that in America, “politics stopped at the water’s edge.” This meant that Democrats and Republicans put partisanship aside, ...

The Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies among members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) aims to eliminate those subsidies that lead to overfished stocks (see Nature 641, 821; 2025). It has been ...

The Trump administration has already added nearly $40 billion in new federal subsidies for oil, gas, and coal in 2025, a report released Tuesday finds, sending an additional $4 billion out the door ...