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With WTO’s credibility at stake, can global calls for reform find consensus?

By Cynthia Kroet, Bradley Dress, Freny Patel and Henrique Santiago ( March 16, 2026, 08:02 GMT | Comment) -- When trade ministers of 166 countries meet later this month, how to reform the World Trade Organization will be the most urgent point on the agenda. Many countries agree that a reform is necessary to ensure that the trade body is fit to address the most pressing trade challenges and evolving patterns of trade and commerce, but they have a complicated patchwork of views. Here is a study of what the EU, US, China, India and Brazil will want.Rising global tensions will loom over trade ministers from the 166 World Trade Organization member countries as they meet in Cameroon later this month to discuss problems and pathways to advance the rules that guide global trade....

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