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Recent World Bank and OECD forecasts show deeper 2020 economic contraction, need for increased global cooperation

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 06/13/2020

The year 2020 is now forecast to result in the sharpest economic contraction since World War II. This is the first recession in 150 years flowing entirely from a health…

US Trade Representative Launches Investigations of DSTs of Numerous Trading Partners

Robert S. Chase II, Jeffrey A. Friedman, Mark D. Herlach, Robert Christoffel, Dennis Jansen, Emily M. Rosenblum and Allison E. Speaker | Global Trade Magazine | 06/11/2020

Egypt’s Abdel Hamid Mamdouh bid for the WTO – Five things to know

Mourad Kamel | The Africa Report | 06/11/2020

  At 67, Abdel Hamid Mamdouh is one of four Af...

How to Make Trade Work for Workers

Robert E. Lighthizer | Foreign Affairs | 06/09/2020

The new coronavirus has challenged many long-held assumptions. In the comin...

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