World Trade Organization News

Trade frictions between China and the United States will probably become more heated in the months ahead, but no trade war will break out between the two biggest economies in the world, Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organization, said on Tuesday.

China has sent the world a strong signal of its commitment to push forward the global economic recovery and free trade by holding a large services trade fair amid the global economic slump, the director-general of the World Trade Organization said on Monday.

CHINA should further open its fledgling service sector to foreign investment to help sustain its economic rise, World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy said yesterday.

STUPIDITY OF THE WEEK, AMONG MANY: THE EU'S TRADE COMMISSIONER KAREL DE GUCHT IS FILING A COMPLAINT AGAINST ARGENTINA before the World Trade Organization , claiming that Argentina has adopted "restrictive measures" since 2005, against European imports.

China has challenged the United State's alleged discriminatory trade practices in the form of import duties on 22 Chinese products by asking the World Trade Organization to look into the matter.

The European Union filed a suit against Argentina's import restrictions with the World Trade Organization today , intensifying the disputes between the South American nation and its trading partners.

The United States piled another layer of preliminary duties on Thursday on a certain type of steel pipe from India, one month after New Delhi complained at the World Trade Organization about an earlier US round.

A top European Central Bank officials says the 17 countries that use the euro need an "urgent overhaul" of their banking and financial system to deal with the debt crisis.

U.S. stock futures are mixed ahead of the long holiday weekend on concerns over the lack of a concrete plan to keep Greece in the European currency union.

World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy addresses a news conference on annual trade forecast and statistics at the WTO headquarters in Geneva April 12, 2012.

The European Union on Friday is expected to file a complaint at the World Trade Organization challenging Argentina's import regulations, part of a plan to pressure President Cristina Kirchner on a range of policies that are angering the world's largest economies.

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Foreign Minister Hctor Timerman requested that the World Trade Organization "take down the new barriers on international trade" he considered to be "driven excessively by developed countries." Timerman is currently in Paris and today met with WTO director Pascal Lamy.

Trade between China and the European Union could be negatively affected as the euro zone crisis continues to worsen amid the fear of a possible Greek exit of the region, Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, said on Wednesday.

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How would you like to go shopping and find that everywhere you went, the label said "Made in the World" instead of "Made in China," "Made in India," "Made in USA" etc.? The label on products Americans purchase that names the country in which they are made may soon be gone.

In a welcome development for American workers, farmers and companies, Russia is poised to join the World Trade Organization in July.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks at an award presentation ceremony for achievements in culture in Moscow, Saturday, March 3, 2012.

A defeat of the United States at the World Trade Organization on Wednesday, in which the U.S. was found to have discriminated against Mexican tuna fishermen, is an example of a characteristic failure by American trade authorities to negotiate such disputes which is what the WTO procedure was designed to encourage even with one of its two NAFTA ... (more)

Did the World Trade Organization just kill the dolphin-safe label for U.S. consumers? The World Trade Organization ruled today that the U.S. "dolphin-safe" label discriminates against Mexican tuna fleets that rely on controversial chasing-and-netting techniques that can harm and kill the marine mammals.