The World Trade Organization, which is at the heart of the rules-based global trading system, faces difficulties across its negotiating, monitoring and dispute settlement functions. But can recent ...

China alleges that the tariffs are based on unfounded and false allegations, and are in excess of the U.S.’s bound rates in a ...

With the benefit of hindsight today, the Washington Consensus was valuable in the sense that it was a consensus, it ...

While US President Donald Trump unleashes trade wars and tariffs, the system for settling such disputes within the World ...

that the U.S.'s "unilateral increase in tariffs seriously violates WTO rules," and that China "will file a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization and take corresponding countermeasures," which ...

China, where Monday was a holiday, said it would challenge Trump's tariffs at the World Trade Organization and take unspecified countermeasures, adding to the uncertainty. The Canadian dollar ...

It formally launched a dispute with the World Trade Organization on Wednesday. For Chinese small businesses, the fallout from the escalating geopolitical tensions was immediate: They are ...

China has called fentanyl America's problem and said it would challenge the tariffs at the World Trade Organization and take other countermeasures, while leaving the door open for talks.

China merely murmured in the first instance about taking "necessary countermeasures" and indicated that it would raise a complaint about the US with the World Trade Organisation. Since then ...

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America's closest neighbors and allies are racing to respond, or bracing for impact as Trump orders big tariffs on imports ...