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WTO

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abbreviation

  1. World Trade Organization

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The WTO forecasts that trade in goods will grow by just 0.5% this year, while the International Monetary Fund also expects to see a slowdown.

From The Wall Street Journal

But US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer was harshly critical, saying that it showed that "existing WTO rules are inadequate to address massive and harmful excess capacity in numerous sectors, including in energy technology".

From Barron's

Beijing says it wants to support the multilateral trading system, "because it has benefited quite a bit from it", WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told the Munich Security Conference.

From Barron's

Speaking at the WTO's headquarters, Okonjo-Iweala said that "the world is moving so fast... If you look at the speed at which technology is moving, and AI is moving and quantum technologies are moving".

From Barron's

Successfully reforming the WTO is a matter of life and death for the organisation, warns the facilitator of talks on revamping the global trade body.

From Barron's