Tag: WTO
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The head of the World Trade Organization says the trading system has surprised her by holding together. The number she uses to prove it is also the clearest available measure of how much ground it has lost. GENEVA, October 7, 2026. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has spent much of the past year being asked when the multilateral…
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A WTO panel will now examine whether Europe’s carbon border levy and the free allowances underpinning its own emissions market comply with the rules, in the first full legal test of climate-linked border measures as the definitive CBAM regime takes financial effect GENEVA / BRUSSELS, 6 October 2026 – The World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement…
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A World Trade Organization panel will examine whether the European Union’s carbon border levy is a climate measure or a trade barrier, and eighteen members have joined to watch, in the first multilateral test of carbon tariffs GENEVA, 3 OCTOBER 2026 The question that has hung over climate trade policy for five years is now…
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Brussels presses Beijing to accept product by product import quotas as an October deadline closes, reviving an instrument the world trading system outlawed three decades ago BRUSSELS, 29 September 2026 The European Union is pressing China to accept quotas on specific products as the price of avoiding a wave of unilateral trade defence measures, a…
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Ambassador Greer convenes G20 trade ministers in Milwaukee this week with an agenda built around forced labor, steel overcapacity and a rewrite of the most favored nation principle, testing whether Washington can turn a tariff program into a multilateral rulebook MILWAUKEE, Sept. 28, 2026 – Trade ministers from the world’s largest economies arrive in Wisconsin…
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Greer hosts the G20 trade ministers this week with conditional most favored nation treatment on the agenda, a steel overcapacity ministerial bolted to the front of it, and the memory of a finance track that could not agree a communique four weeks ago. MILWAUKEE, Sept. 28, 2026 – United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer opens…
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The Commission’s 44th annual trade defence report, now with the Council and Parliament, records 232 measures in force, 32 fresh investigations and a litigation docket that nearly doubled in a year BRUSSELS, 21 September 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting Trade Desk The European Union entered 2026 with 232 trade defence measures in force, up from…
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Germany’s carmakers, long the loudest voice against confronting Beijing, now say the EU may deploy its trade defence toolbox where WTO rules are broken, a conditional endorsement that removes the biggest domestic obstacle to European action BERLIN, SEPTEMBER 24, 2026 The president of Germany’s automotive industry association warned on Thursday of growing trade imbalances with…
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Washington blocks China from joining Brazil’s WTO consultations on US additional duties, spotlighting a quiet veto power at the front end of dispute settlement and the long road facing DS646 GENEVA, 24 September 2026 The United States has declined to accept China as a third party to the World Trade Organization consultations that Brazil requested…