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

RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Focused trade agreements can sustain the WTO in time of economic nationalism

Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE)

April 12, 2021
Past Event

A trade and environment negotiations agenda in the WTO: Part 2

Anabel González (PIIE), James Bacchus (Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity, University of Central Florida) and Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE)

April 7, 2021
Policy Brief

The unappreciated trend toward unilateral trade liberalization

Robert Z. Lawrence (PIIE)

March 2021
Past Event

What trade and environment negotiations agenda for the WTO?

Anabel González (PIIE), James Bacchus (Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity, University of Central Florida) and Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE)

March 17, 2021
Op-Eds

To Build Back Better, Biden Needs to Fix Trade

Chad P. Bown (PIIE)
January 21, 2021
via Foreign Affairs
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