( September 9, 2026, 12:32 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: World Trade Organization members launched 13 new disputes in 2025, up from 10 the previous year, the WTO said in its annual report. The organization’s Appellate Body remained unable to hear appeals after its last sitting member’s term expired in 2020 and members failed to agree on replacements. The report names consensus-based decision-making, the erosion of the most-favored-nation principle, growing recourse to national-security exceptions and unresolved development questions as central reform challenges, after ministers failed to adopt a workplan at their March conference in Cameroon.The statement is attached....
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