LONDON, March 20 (Reuters) - Britain on Monday said it would extend its zero-tariff arrangement on products from Ukraine until March 2024 as part of its measures to support the economy there after the Russian invasion last year.

Two years later, they’re suffering from a glut of red wine and plummeting grape prices with no overseas market big enough to fill the gap.

Exports from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to the US dropped by almost 90 per cent last month, year on year, to US$497,440

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is launching a legislative push to end the normalized trade relationship between the U.S. and China as tensions between the two countries flare.

Since its ratification in 2020, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) has played a central role in North American trade disagreements, settling two formal disputes on Canadian dairy tariffs in 2022 and U.S. regional content requirements for automobiles 2023. Impending disputes over Mexican energy policies and an announced ban on the import of GMO corn for human consumption, as well as a number of resolved and pending disputes under the labor chapter’s rapid response mechanism underscore the necessity for businesses, policymakers, and the public at large to understand the process for resolving disputes outlined in the Agreement.

WASHINGTON — It's been less than three years since the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement replaced NAFTA as the law of the land in continental trade, and there are already hints of the existential anxiety that preceded it.

— The head of the biggest U.S. manufacturing group is in Geneva today to urge the World Trade Organization not to waive intellectual property rights protections for Covid-19 therapeutic treatments and diagnostic materials.

Albanese, in his maiden visit as PM to India, was due to visit INS Vikrant, India's first homemade aircraft carrier, in Mumbai on Thursday

In 2020, 78.7 per cent of Chinese said they had bought South Korean products in the past five years, compared to 43.1 per cent in January, a survey shows

Korea will suspend a complaint filed with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against Japan for restrictions on the export of certain key materials to Korea, as the two countries agreed to work together to lift the export curbs.

DUBAI Feb 13 (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization's director general said on Monday that reforming the body's dispute settlement system is a "priority."

Here's the bottom line on underwear tariffs — they're sexist.

Don Farrell says the two sides have made progress on lobster imports, but Canberra unlikely to walk away from wine and barley tariff cases

The election of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil has raised the possibility of a free-trade deal between China and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur)

Global trade is expected to slow sharply this year as high energy prices and rising interest rates take their toll on the economy. The World Trade Organization (WTO) projected in October that after growing by 3.5% in 2022, trade volumes will increase by just 1% in 2023.

WASHINGTON - The United States is filing another formal dispute over what it considers Canada's failure to live up to its trade obligations to American dairy farmers and producers.

A long-awaited meeting between Australia and China's top trade officials will take place next week, Trade Minister Don Farrell has told ABC's 7.30.

GENEVA, Jan 27 (Reuters) - China strongly criticised its trade rival the United States at a World Trade Organization meeting on Friday, calling Washington a "unilateral bully" and a "rule breaker".

Jan 26 (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday introduced a resolution to repeal President Joe Biden's suspension of import tariffs on solar panels from four Southeast Asian nations, according to a statement provided to Reuters.

The World Trade Organization will appoint experts to examine two European Union complaints against China over patents and trade restrictions imposed on Lithuania, a Geneva-based trade official said Friday.

Taipei says it has a ‘clear and substantial’ interest in Beijing’s filing but ultimately will likely side with the US

The already-beleaguered World Trade Organization dispute settlement system suffered new blows in December when multiple panels found that U.S. actions were not justified on national security grounds, including U.S. tariffs on steel. 

The World Trade Organization nears a breaking point over U.S. tariffs against China.

— How the United States responds to a ruling this week in a high-profile dispute over the automotive rules of origin could have serious consequences for the long-term credibility of the two-year-old agreement that the Trump administration negotiated to replace NAFTA.

Australia’s foreign minister visited Beijing last month

GUAYAQUIL, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso said on Tuesday the country has sealed a free trade deal with China, an agreement expected to increase exports and boost growth in the South American country's industrial sector.

With quick wins increasingly exhausted, Kemi Badenoch wants to shift the UK’s post-Brexit focus away from big-ticket trade agreements.

The United States and its democratic allies’ efforts to balance China’s superpower ambitions grew more serious in 2022. In the closing weeks of the year, Japan announced a surge of defense spending, Taiwan extended its period of mandatory military service, and the Biden administration, which is keeping Trump-era tariffs in place on thousands of Chinese products, tightened export controls blocking Beijing’s access to strategic computer-chip technology.

GENEVA, Dec 9 (Reuters) - China urged the United States to respect a World Trade Organization ruling on Friday which found that Trump-era U.S. tariffs imposed on steel and aluminium imports contravened global trading rules.

Dec 12 (Reuters) - Indonesia on Monday filed an expected appeal against a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel ruling that was in favour of the European Union (EU) in a dispute over Jakarta's ban on nickel ore exports, the WTO said.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has found that tariffs on steel and aluminium imports that were imposed by the US under former President Donald Trump violate global trade rules.

Efforts to reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions must overcome the free-rider problem, and carbon border adjustment measures are the most effective way to level the playing field. But only a revived World Trade Organization could ensure that such a mechanism is applied fairly.

Blame COVID. Or China, or Russia, or globalization itself. Responsibility for the emerging trend of countries launching their own industrial policies must lie somewhere. Even if the forces contributing to the spread of protectionist policies and increased government interventions in the market are hard to dissect, the implications for the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its elaborate system of agreements and rules are immense. These policies threaten the most fundamental rules and principles of the multilateral trading system, such as those requiring all members to treat one another equally and not favor local goods over foreign ones. If the foundations are crumbling, can the edifice still stand?

“If we are scared of being sued, and we step back, we will not be a developed country,” said Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo.

The US authorities have cleared a significant supply of JinkoSolar modules, made with Wacker polysilicon, for sale in the US market, according to ROTH Capital Partners.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol held a trade strategy meeting this week in which easing private firms’ reliance on China was top of the agenda

BERLIN, Nov 23 (Reuters) - No one is suggesting Germany should stop trading with China, but Beijing's investments in critical sectors must be examined closely, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Wednesday.

Forging an independent trade policy was a key Brexit selling point — but now the rubber’s hitting the road.

MANILA, Nov 24 (Reuters) - A Philippine inter-agency panel chaired by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Thursday approved removing tariffs on electric vehicles (EVs) to spur demand amid high fuel costs.

Nation implemented the ban in 2020 to help its own sector and coffers, but EU said the move unfairly limited access to nickel ore

Chinese president emphasizes security to Communist Party Congress, just weeks after U.S. bars sales of advanced computer chips and chip-making tech to China

McKalip is Biden’s pick for chief agricultural negotiator

U.S. beverage makers and consumers continue to pay for tariffs on aluminum that the President won’t lift.

The elimination of the trade barriers is long overdue.

China-like restrictions set companies scrambling in key test of Pacific trade deal

The government in Berlin wants to reduce dependence on the country’s most important trading partner. But German businesses are not convinced.

With no end in sight, nationalism is trumping economic wisdom as global recession looms.

Instead of tariffs, Commerce suggests investments in key segments of the U.S. magnet supply chain.

New Delhi maintained it meets notification requirements for `peace clause’; says it will meet bilaterally

A clerical error sparks a 323% duty on quartz slabs from India.

MODERATOR:  Greetings from the U.S. Department of State’s Asia Pacific Media Hub.  I would like to welcome our participants dialing in from the Asia Pacific region and around the world.  Today we have the honor of hosting an on-the-record briefing with the United States Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai.  Ambassador Tai will discuss the Biden administration’s close partnership with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the administration’s continued commitment to the region.  Ambassador Tai will take questions from participating journalists after her opening remarks.

While automotive companies are trying to solve the riddle of cheap, sustainable electric mobility, they’re now running up against the looming challenge of doing it largely with domestic content beginning in mid-2025.

In 2020, HTMX, an American manufacturer of vinyl tiles, went to court to get a refund for President Trump’s China tariffs. Since then, thousands of domestic companies have filed over 130 cases, hoping to do the same thing.

Plants and warehouses are sprouting up south of the border as companies try to avoid US duties.

Argentina has requested WTO dispute consultations with Peru concerning anti-dumping and countervailing duties imposed by Peru on imports of biodiesel from Argentina. The request was circulated to WTO members on 6 September.

BERLIN, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Argentina has launched a complaint procedure with the World Trade Organization (WTO) challenging Peruvian duties on biodiesel imports from Argentina, according to the international trade body.

Tokyo has announced an ambitious multibillion-dollar program of economic assistance to Africa, in a bid to counter Beijing's growing economic and political influence.

On April 1, India slapped tariffs on solar cells and modules. This wouldn’t be newsworthy except that India made these tariffs out of whole cloth. This is as audacious as protectionism gets.

The House of Commons international trade committee is seeking a Taiwan visit this fall but there are fears it could escalate tensions with China

Trump son-in-law offers peek into historic talks. As for Jan. 6, that's another matter

WTO REFORM: The light shed by recent papers on the role of the Secretariat is welcome, but there are unanswered questions

Over the past two years, we have had the opportunity to present the findings from our EJIL article, ‘WTO Rulings and the Veil of Anonymity’, to a number of audiences spanning fields from international law to political science and quantitative methods. Though the article makes a number of claims about transparency in judicial settings, the design of trade rules, and the anonymity of dissenting opinions, the one finding that has invariably attracted most attention has been our use of text-as-data methods to show that the permanent staff of the WTO Secretariat have more influence over the final text of WTO rulings than the adjudicators themselves.

Gov. Eric J. Holcomb of Indiana led a group that arrived on the island Sunday, even as visits this month by U.S. officials have angered Beijing.

Over a half year into the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, trade experts say world’s biggest trade pact serves more to ‘tidy up’ one-to-one agreements

President Biden has yet to make a decision on the options his advisors have presented on the tariffs, according to senior administration officials.