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A Middle Power Agenda for the Global Trading System

Sam Hardwick | East Asia Forum | 05/26/2026

Middle powers can — and likely will — maintain and improve the rules-based trading system. The question is how they should seek to do so. The right path is to…

The WTO Can Be a Good Supporting Actor on Trade

Wendy Cutler | The Straits Times | 04/15/2026

Wendy Cutler is senior vice-president at the Asia Society Policy Ins...

Op-Ed by Ambassador Jamieson Greer: Another Fish Story From the WTO

Ambassador Jamieson Greer | Office of the U.S. Trade Representative | 04/08/2026

This piece b...

Prying Open Pandora’s Box by Scrapping MFN

Alan Wm. Wolff | 02/17/2026

We are at an odd place with respect to the world trading system right now. Two of th...

Rethinking Special and Differential Treatment at the WTO

Nayana Sharma | Observer Research Foundation | 07/08/2025

Debates over WTO reform intensify as Special an...

30 Years On: A Call to Action to Restore Economic Cooperation at the WTO

Anabel González | World Trade Organization | 09/11/2024

“Opportunity.” That was the word...

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