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Europe News

Customs duties: Race against time in Europe to export to the US

Some European companies are rushing to export their products across the Atlantic for fear of additional surcharges. We report from the port of Antwerp in Belgium.

17/04/2025

Europe News

WTO forecasts 6% bump in Chinese exports to Europe in 2025

With the Chinese and US economies decoupling, WTO forecasts anticipate a diversion of Chinese exports to Europe.

16/04/2025

Economy

WTO: Trump's tariff policies could force global trade slide in 2025

According to the WTO, US President Donald Trump's shifting tariff policies could decline global trade by 0.2% this year.

16/04/2025

Europe News

Where's the voice of the WTO?, Newsletter

This week's key events presented by Euronews' competition and trade reporter Peggy Corlin.

14/04/2025

USA

Trump leads wholesale withdrawals from international organisations

US President Donald Trump is reshaping foreign policy with radical decisions, including withdrawals from international organisations and defunding key programmes, sparking widespread debate between supporters and opponents.

07/02/2025

The Europe Conversation

EU holds cards when negotiating with Trump on tariffs, says ex-WTO chief Lamy

There's a range of options for the EU to open trans-Atlantic negotiations to persuade US President Donald Trump not to slap harmful tariffs on EU goods, the former EU trade commissioner and WTO chief told Euronews.

06/02/2025

Europe News

EU trade chief commits to WTO in Geneva following Macron doubts

Emmanuel Macron said the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is not working and that several countries are breaking away from it, but in Geneva European Trade Commissioner Maroš Sefcovic renewed the EU's commitment to multilateral world trade rules.

08/01/2025

Europe News

China takes EU to WTO over 'unreasonable' tariffs on electric cars

Trade frictions between the EU and China escalate as Beijing files a WTO lawsuit over the tariffs imposed on its electric cars.

30/10/2024

Europe News

Brussels takes China to the WTO over 'questionable' dairy probe

The call for WTO consultations comes as EU and Chinese officials step up talks on the dispute around electric vehicles.

23/09/2024

Europe News

Sánchez arrives in Beijing as EU-China trade rift rumbles on

The EU imposed provisional tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles with the European Commission maintaining that Chinese firms unfairly benefit from government subsidies, allowing them to keep their prices artificially low.

08/09/2024

Europe News

India’s unrealistic demands sank WTO agri talks, claims commissioner

EU executive blamed India’s hard stance on food stockpiling for lack of breakthrough at World Trade Organisation’s biennial agriculture ministerial.

04/03/2024

Economy

Global economy weighed down by war and instability, trade chief warns

"People everywhere are feeling anxious about the future and this will be felt at the ballot box this year," the head of the WTO said.

26/02/2024

Europe News

Tonnes of South African citrus fruit stranded in EU ports over dispute

South Africa has referred the matter to the World Trade Organisation.

08/08/2022

World News

WTO ministers reach deals on fisheries, food, COVID vaccines

The World Trade Organization agreed on deals to protect stocks of ocean fish, broaden production of Covid-19 vaccines and improve food security.

17/06/2022

Europe Decoded

Why is the EU taking China to the WTO over its Lithuania dispute?

Brussels says it went to the World Trade Organization after failing to settle the dispute with China.

28/01/2022

Belgium

EU and US reach deal to end Airbus-Boeing trade dispute

The trade dispute skyrocketed under the Trump administration and saw tit-for-tat duties slapped on a range of companies that have nothing to do with aircraft production

15/06/2021

World

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to make the WTO "an organisation that achieves results"

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman and the first African to serve as the WTO Director-General, gives her insight into multilateralism, global order and how sectors have been impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

12/05/2021

Switzerland

Swiss newspaper apologises for offensive WTO chief headline

A Swiss newspaper has apologised for publishing an "inappropriate and unsuitable" headline about the appointment of new WTO Director-General Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

01/03/2021

Europe News

Brussels prioritises WTO reform in newly announced trade plans

The European Commission laid out its trade priorities for the next few years on Thursday, which include reforming the World Trade Organization.

18/02/2021

Europe News

EU argues against US metal tariffs at WTO

In a public hearing at the World Trade Organization, the European Union has launched a case against the United States over metal tariffs imposed in 2018. It is the first of a series of cases brought to the Geneva-based trade body by countries hit by those measures.

04/11/2019