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Last updated: October 2026
The World Trade Organization is the referee of global trade — the body whose rules govern tariffs, subsidies, and disputes between more than 160 member economies. Headquartered in Geneva, its dispute system is the closest thing world trade has to a court.
WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says goods trade grew 4.6 percent last year, nearly double the forecast, with AI driving 42 percent of growth — a resilience that startled even her economists.
NewsAfter three months of talks, China pledged to halve its hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicle exports to the EU and ease rare-earth licensing. Brussels calls it a first step; the carmakers cheered, the EP
NewsA record twenty Chinese brands storm the Paris show as Brussels caps hybrid imports at 350,000 a year — and Europe answers with cheap retro EVs.
NewsSefcovic meets Wang Wentao in Beijing on October 8 and 9 under an October deadline. On the table: a cap on Chinese hybrid-car exports that Beijing rejected, and the European safeguard that may follow.
NewsJakarta banned raw nickel exports, built the smelters, and now rations the ore itself. The October 1 trade figures show the strategy still pays — even as batteries pivot away from nickel.
NewsA new AP-NORC poll puts tariff opposition at a record high, cost-of-living approval at 17% and the economy at 26%, as Democrats make affordability the centerpiece of the November 3 midterms.
NewsAuto exports fell 12 percent in September, the sharpest drop since December 2025, as US tariffs bite and the delayed fourth USMCA round looms.
NewsThe Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours.
NewsTen days before EU leaders debate Chinese trade imbalances, France and Germany have tabled a joint paper for a rapid-response instrument that could cut offenders off from the single market.
NewsAt 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, three presidential proclamations took effect banning Canadian alcohol, dairy products and motorcycles — the first outright import prohibitions of the trade war, resting on a Dep
NewsChina's cabinet pledged 'stronger counter-cyclical measures' Monday to defend its 4.5–5% growth target — as Washington and Beijing each cut $30 billion in tariffs and opened an AI incident channel. Th
NewsAmerica’s trade gap hit a 17-month high on record imports. The tariffs were supposed to fix this. The numbers say otherwise.
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