China and Russia have shown no intention of living up to World Trade Organization rules and Washington should not have supported their membership in the global trade body, the Trump administration said Friday.
In strongly worded reports to Congress, the US Trade Representative delivered a laundry list of grievances over unfair trade practices by Beijing and Moscow it says runsRead more
The World Trade Organization on Thursday upped its forecast for global trade growth in 2017 thanks to stronger than expected demand for merchandise in Asia and North America.
A previous projection of 2.4 percent growth for this year has been boosted to 3.6 percent, the organization said in a press release, headlined "WTO upgrades forecast for 2017 as trade reboundsRead more
Foreign Minister of Switzerland Didier Burkhalter held here on Tuesday talks with his Sudanese Counterpart Ibrahim Ghandour, who is currently visiting Bern.
The talks dealt with the relations between the two countries and issues of common concern.
The two sides also tackled the files of combating terrorism, illegal immigration, human trafficking and the role played by Sudan in this regard,Read more
China on Tuesday asked the World Trade Organization to create an expert panel to examine the so-called "surrogate country" approach used by the European Union to calculate anti-dumping measures applied to Chinese exports.
When China joined the WTO in 2001, it was written into the terms of the deal that member states could treat it as a non-market economy forRead more
As Britain prepares to leave the EU, some carmakers are considering softening the blow of any tariffs by sourcing more parts locally and producing more models they can sell domestically rather than export.
Eighty percent of UK-assembled vehicles are exported and they could face tariffs of up to 10 percent if Britain has to fall back on World Trade OrganizationRead more
The World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) will investigate Turkish concerns over anti-dumping duties imposed by Morocco on imports of hot rolled coil (HRC).
After a meeting held last October with the WTO, which did not result to an amicable settlement, Turkey decided to challenge the anti-dumping measures applied by Morocco on steel in the jurisdictional area.
TurkeyRead more
Lenders are lining up to establish a presence in Ethiopia, one of Africa’s fastest-growing and most under-banked economies. Now they need the government to let them open their doors.
Over the past two years, Standard Bank Group Ltd., Africa’s biggest lender by assets, and KCB Group Ltd., Kenya’s largest lender, have joined the likes of Citigroup Inc., Commerzbank AG andRead more
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said on Wednesday that it will take aggressive action to combat other countries' unfair trade practices and may defy World Trade Organization rulings that it views as interfering with U.S. sovereignty
In an annual trade policy agenda document, the U.S. Trade Representative's office said the administration "will not tolerate" unfair trade practices that distort markets,Read more
The first multilateral deal agreed at the World Trade Organization came into force on Wednesday, a step billed as a milestone for the body facing unprecedented threats from a hostile US administration.
The Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) has now been ratified by 112 of the WTO’s 164 members, crossing the two-thirds threshold needed for activation, the Geneva-based organization confirmed.
UnderRead more
Acting Minister of Tourism, Industry, Trade, Investment and Digital Economy, Moulay Hafid Elalamy, called Monday in Casablanca for strengthening cooperation among the member States of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in the settlement of trade disputes.
The settlement of trade disputes is an important tool in strengthening the legal apparatus governing trade relations between the OIC member StatesRead more