US suspends financial contributions to WTO, trade sources say

WTO at a Crossroads: Upholding Global Trade Stability Amid Escalating Protectionism

As global trade faces mounting threats from rising protectionism, the World Trade Organization (WTO) stands at a pivotal moment in safeguarding economic stability. Major economies, including the U.S. and China, are imposing unilateral tariffs and restrictive policies, intensifying trade tensions, fragmenting markets, and disrupting supply chains. WTO Director-General Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Chief Economist Ralph […] The post WTO at a Crossro…

During the first decades of the century, globalization was consolidated as a global economic model, whose major driver was the United States. It reached its climax with China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. Although, at first sight, it would have been thought that the main objective was the export from the United States (US) of American products, the investment of American companies went to China, with the aim of manuf…

Trump Reportedly Pauses U.S. Funding to World Trade Organization

The Trump administration has put U.S. funding for the World Trade Organization (WTO) on hold pending a review its impact on U.S. interests. ... The post Trump Reportedly Pauses U.S. Funding to World Trade Organization appeared first on The New American.

Trump signed an executive order to withdraw U.S. investment from several UN bodies, including the WTO, which places the country in the same backwater category as Mozambique, Haiti, and Chile.

US ‘in arrears’ at the World Trade Organisation

It joins Angola, Chile, Eswatini, Grenada, Haiti, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Uganda in Category 1 arrears.

US 'in arrears' at the WTO

The United States has not paid its 2024 dues to the World Trade Organization and is therefore now deemed to be in "arrears", the WTO's spokesman said Friday.