World Trade Organization

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman and first African to head the World Trade Organization (WTO), is uncontested in seeking another term, the group's chair has announced.

Beijing said on Tuesday it had lodged a complaint with the World Trade Organization over the European Union's decision to impose hefty tariffs on Chinese-made electric cars.

The EU said Friday there were "significant remaining gaps" in negotiations seeking to avoid hefty tariffs on Chinese-made electric cars due to take effect next week but added that talks would continue.

Britain is urgently looking to reset its trading relationship with the European Union, and sees international commerce as key to reviving U.K. growth, Trade Minister Douglas Alexander has told AFP.

Alexander said Britain's 2016 vote to leave the EU caused "significant disruption" to its trade policy and the country needed to recalibrate its global trade outlook.

China has requested for consultations with Türkiye at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over additional tariffs Ankara imposed on imported electric vehicles and other vehicles from China.

"This discriminatory action is a violation of WTO rules and a typical protectionist practice," China's Commerce Ministry said in a statement.

The government of Canada announced yesterday (Tuesday) that it plans to move forward with new tariffs on critical rare earths, batteries, solar-related products and semiconductors imported into the country from China, which could trig

China‘s anti-dumping investigation on dairy products imported by the European Union will be handled in an open and transparent manner on the basis of Chinese laws and regulations, in accordance with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, t

The head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has said global commerce was going through troubling times, with protectionism on the rise.

WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said the future of trade lay in services, digitalisation and the green economy, in the global trade body's annual report.

The European Commission has unveiled plans for significant tariff hikes on grain imports from Russia and Belarus. The proposed tariffs, described as potentially functioning as de facto sanctions, aim to address growing concerns over the use of food exports as a geopolitical tool by Moscow while safeguarding EU markets and farmers.

A high-level WTO conference ended Saturday with a temporary extension of an e-commerce moratorium but no deals on agriculture and fisheries, throwing into doubt the effectiveness of the multilateral trade body.