World Trade Organisation

New Director-General of the World Trade Organisation Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, centre (Fabrice Coffrini/Pool/Keystone via AP)

World Trade Organisation’s new chief pushes for fisheries deal

March 1, 2021

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala arrives at the WTO headquarters in Geneva (Fabrice Coffrini/Pool/Keystone via AP)

World Trade Organisation’s new director-general makes history

March 1, 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the Cabinet Room, Downing Street, hosting the G7 leaders for a virtual meeting (Geoff Pugh/Daily Telegraph/PA)

WTO chief urges UK to donate vaccines to developing countries now

February 20, 2021

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the new head of the World Trade Organisation (Michel Euler/AP)

Okonjo-Iweala becomes first woman and African to head World Trade Organisation

February 15, 2021

The EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier is continuing talks in Brussels (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Post-Brexit trade talks continue into the weekend

December 19, 2020

Australia will ask the World Trade Organisation to intervene in its dispute with China over barley and expects other nations to become involved in the case, Australian Trade Minister Birmingham said (Rod McGuirk/AP)

Australia to ask WTO for help in barley row with China

December 16, 2020

Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull (Chris Jackson/Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Former Australian leaders split on trade relationship with EU

December 11, 2020

Malcolm Turnbull, the last Australian prime minister, has warned the UK against a no-deal Brexit (Aaron Chown/PA)

Australian-style Brexit? Be careful what you wish for, warns last Australian PM

December 11, 2020

A failure to agree a trade deal with the EU is predicted to wipe £45 billion off the UK economy in 2021 (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

No-deal Brexit economic fallout predicted to exceed that caused by coronavirus

December 10, 2020