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‘Broken’, ‘Moribund’ — Journalists Need a Better Thesaurus on the WTO

Peter Ungphakorn | Trade β Blog | 03/26/2026

Journalists are reaching for the wrong thesaurus when trying to describe the World Trade Organization (WTO) at its Ministerial Conference in Yaoundé. As a result, they come up with words like…

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...

How 2025’s US Tariff Shocks Can Give Way to Constructive Reforms in 2026

Daniel Mullaney | Atlantic Council | 02/09/2026

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration’s t...

Global Supply Chains at Risk Without New Rules for Digital Trade

John Denton | East Asia Forum | 06/23/2024

Much ink is being spilled on predictions of ‘deglobali...

Reform of the World Trade Organization

Alan Wm. Wolff | Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) | 09/26/2022

Below is an excerpt from the “Sec...

There’s Another Way of Looking at the WTO

Stuart Harbinson | ECIPE | 10/06/2021

As the WTO’s next ministerial conference at the end of November comes into view,...

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