World Trade Organization

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The World Trade Organization WTO logo is reflected in water on a sidewalk at the entrance of the WTO headquarters in Geneva April 9, 2013.
REUTERS/Ruben Sprich
Policy Brief

The WTO's Existential Crisis: How to Salvage Its Ability to Settle Trade Disputes

Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE) and Euijin Jung (PIIE)
December 2019
The headquarters of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are pictured in Geneva, Switzerland, April 12, 2017.
REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

In US-China Trade Disputes, the WTO Usually Sides with the United States

Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE) and Euijin Jung (PIIE)
March 12, 2019
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

EU Proposals to Resolve the WTO Appellate Body Crisis Represent Partial Progress

Tetyana Payosova (Van Bael & Bellis), Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE) and Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE)
December 10, 2018
Trade Talks Episode 0: Introduction to the Weekly Podcast
Trade Talks

Trade Talks Episode 60: America May Be Doing Away with WTO Dispute Settlement

Featuring Soumaya Keynes (The Economist) and Chad P. Bown (PIIE)
October 28, 2018
Policy Brief

The Dispute Settlement Crisis in the World Trade Organization: Causes and Cures

Tetyana Payosova (Harvard Law School), Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE) and Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE)
March 2018

Recent Content

Trade and Investment Policy Watch

The United States can return to multilateral economic cooperation. Here's how.

Chad P. Bown (PIIE) and Anabel González (PIIE)

January 15, 2021
Past Event

Revitalizing multilateral trade cooperation: Why? Why now? And how?

Anabel González (PIIE), Richard Baldwin (Graduate Institute, Geneva) and Patrick Low (Asia Global Institute)

December 16, 2020
Past Event

Rebuilding the Global Economy: Role of the WTO and US approaches to it

Anabel González (PIIE), Chad P. Bown (PIIE), J. Bradford Jensen (PIIE) and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance; Former Minister of Finance, Nigeria; Former Managing Director of the World Bank)

November 16, 2020
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Memo to the World Trade Organization on how to fight COVID-19 and make needed reforms

Anabel González (PIIE)
November 16, 2020
Past Event

Agriculture trade and COVID-19: trade barriers, food security and WTO reform

Anabel González (PIIE), Joe Glauber (International Food Policy Research Institute) and Sherman Robinson (PIIE)

October 7, 2020
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

USTR Lighthizer's great leap backward on trade

Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE) and Euijin Jung (PIIE)

September 1, 2020
Past Event

African perspectives on the WTO and prospects for regional trade cooperation

Anabel González (PIIE), Vera Songwe (UN Economic Commission for Africa) and Robert Z. Lawrence (PIIE)

August 5, 2020
Past Event

China in the WTO: Current issues and prospects for reform

Anabel González (PIIE), Zhang Xiangchen (China's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the WTO) and Chad P. Bown (PIIE)

July 15, 2020
Past Event

What future for the global trading system?

Anabel González (PIIE), Pascal Lamy (Former Director-General, World Trade Organization) and Robert B. Zoellick (Former President of the World Bank and Former United States Trade Representative)

June 17, 2020
Past Event

The WTO in the Post-COVID-19 World

Anabel González (PIIE), Arancha González-Laya (Minister of Foreign Affairs, EU and Cooperation of Spain) and Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE)

June 3, 2020