The South Korean government has decided not to defend its status as a “developing country” in the area of agriculture during World Trade Organization (WTO) renegotiations. But it remains to be seen ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon, Apr 2 2026 (IPS) - The WTO’s 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14), which took place from 26 to 30 March 2026 in Cameroon, was reported as a collapse resulting from the stand-off ...

Developing countries and LDCs asserted themselves across critical areas, such as agriculture, e-commerce and reform debates, at the WTO’s 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14) in Yaoundé, Cameroon last ...

China’s move comes as the US, under President Donald Trump, has been perceived as walking away from the global free trade system. - Photo: AFP BEIJING: China’s pledge to no longer seek developing ...

A new and expanding alliance of developing countries on Sunday left a doomed World Trade Organisation (WTO) conference empty-handed but far from despondent, having flexed its new-found muscles. Led by ...

WASHINGTON — The United States said Monday that South Korea and three other members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) maintained their self-declared developing country status despite their pledge ...

Farmers’ groups are objecting to pressure from the US for South Korea to relinquish its “developing country” status within the World Trade Organization (WTO). “Farmer’s Road,” an association of five ...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has appreciated China’s decision to no longer seek special and differential treatment (S&DT) in future WTO agreements which follows years of pressure from developed ...

Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal defended the Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) principle, stressing its ...

Orlando, Florida: Not all WTO travails can be traced to the US' shortsighted opposition to the rules-based multilateral trading system. There's also India. While the US has done its best to undermine ...