18 October 2024

The World Is Abandoning the WTO

Kristen Hopewell

For over 75 years, the multilateral trading system has helped ensure stability and order in the global economy. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO), brought states together to cooperate in lowering tariffs and other trade barriers, promoting global economic integration and establishing rules to govern trade. This system has proved extraordinarily effective and fostered an era of unprecedented global prosperity.

But now this liberal trading order is in crisis. International cooperation on trade has largely broken down. 

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