Experts warn of existential threat to WTO

A panel of independent experts warned the WTO could become irrelevant if trade wars and tensions cause wider “backsliding” towards trade protectionism.

By Arete News - July 17, 2018

The World Trade Organization in Geneva (AN/John Heilprin)

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