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Changes to fundamental World Trade Organization rules are being driven by the US and EU. This week’s meeting in Cameroon could see developing nations lose out.
African countries face unfair trade rules, delayed decisions and weak support, leaving them exporting raw goods and losing out economically.
The services revolution enabled the rise of the generalist boss and the creation of the CEO class.
The US government used to have American farmers’ backs, but that support has been dwindling for decades. New subsidies signal big changes for farmers.
Under Donald Trump, the US is fundamentally remaking the rules of the global trade system, provoking an existential crisis in the WTO.
For decades, government subsidies have helped industrial fishing fleets to expand, often with little regard for sustainability.
The old system of US-led multilateralism has ended. What will replace it remains unclear.
The first 100 days of Trump 2.0 have undermined confidence in the US and the international institutions it supports.
Development economist Jostein Hauge talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the winners and losers from tariffs and protectionism.
The US and others have been shifting the rules of the global free trade system for years. New Zealand can’t ignore the risks much longer.
For the past half century, successive US governments have championed free trade. But do they practice what they preach?
The US president is ramping up tariffs on Chinese-made products, including a 100% border tax on electric cars.
As of 2022, only Nigeria and Sudan had lower trade-to-GDP ratios.
The recent World Trade Organization conference in Abu Dhabi has again failed to resolve any of the big issues on the table. Power relations rather than rule-based negotiation will fill the void.
Power politics and lack of progress on vital issues mean there are low expectations for the World Trade Organization’s ministerial conference in Abu Dhabi next week.
Governments all over the world are propping up overfishing. Now scientists have penned an open letter calling on trade ministers to implement stricter regulations against harmful fisheries subsidies.
Joe Biden’s ‘buy American’ effort with EVs likely violated World Trade Organization rules that the US helped create. The US has an opportunity now to update the system – if it’s willing to take it.
Abandoning its WTO case is a quicker path to getting Australian barley back into China. It could also be a template for resolving tariff disputes over other products, including Australian wine.
Time is running out to expand an agreement to relax patent rules on COVID vaccines. Members of the World Trade Organization should broaden its scope to treatments and tests.
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Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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