HONG KONG -- The appeals panel of the World Trade Organization ruled on Monday that China must dismantle its system of export taxes and quotas for nine widely used industrial materials. The legal setback for Beijing could set a precedent for the West to challenge China's export restrictions on other natural resources, including rare earth metals...
China's economy seems to be in trouble, which could be a very big problem for the world unless China's leaders and trading partners ensure that economic strains in the world's largest exporting nation do not lead to trade confrontations around the globe. China's housing bubble appears to be imploding, steel production is falling along with the...
To the Editor: Your article about the 10th anniversary of China's World Trade Organization entry (''Rise of a Trading Power, in 10 Years,'' Business Day, Dec. 9) did not mention one crucial reason China has been allowed to keep unusually high economic barriers. The United States and other W.T.O. members did indeed hope ''to encourage Beijing's...
WTO (eng. World Trade Organisation, da. Verdenshandelsorganisation) er en international organisation, der arbejder for at hjælpe producenter, eksportører og importører verden over med at udføre deres respektive hverv.
Organisationen blev stiftet i 1995 og har sit hovedsæde i den schweiziske by Geneve. Man opererer i 2009 med et budget på 189 millioner schweizerfranc. 153 lande er pr. 23. juli 2008 medlemmer.