Discover the evolution of international trade agreements from mercantilism to modern global trade, highlighting trends in multilateral and regional arrangements.

THE IDEA that global trade is waning has become widely accepted. On the surface, it seems plausible amid a pandemic and talk of decoupling among the leading economies. And the sense of slippage has ...

FILE PHOTO: French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot visits China BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged Britain and the European Union on Tuesday to safeguard multilateral trading ...

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Pressing challenges like climate change require a coordinated, multilateral response. So too does the trend of economic nationalism spreading around the world. A multilateral green trade pact focused ...

The Director-General of the World Trade Organization is sounding despondent after the latest setback to the December 2013 Bali Agreement. Meanwhile, a survey of exporters has given some endorsement ...

For the best part of a century, the world trade has grown exponentially on the back of rule-based multilateral trading system. The year of 2025 witnessed the 30th anniversary of the World Trade ...

America’s Asia Pacific allies have rejected Donald Trump’s trade policies and moved ahead on their own. At the APEC summit in Danang, Trump doubled down on his message of “America First” and ...

Brics foreign ministers met in New York on Friday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly and issued a strong criticism of trade-restrictive measures — without naming any country — and Israel’s ...

UKRAINE, LONG PULLED back and forth between east and west, is feeling the tug again, this time between rival trade blocks. Next month it hopes to sign a free-trade agreement with the European Union.

Daniella served as a Jay Van Andel Senior Analyst in Trade Policy. Despite more than five decades of evidence demon­strating the gains from liberalizing trade, the impact of international trade and ...

Trade ministers from over 150 countries descend on Bali, Indonesia, this week to attend the most important World Trade Organization meeting in years. At stake is not only a package of measures to ...