Has it actually improved?

President Donald Trump has remade the global trading system. He’s just getting started. Trump’s “reciprocal” tariff regime went into effect just after midnight, solidifying the new world order fueled ...

The global trading system is experiencing the "worst disruptions in the past 80 years", World Trade Organization chief Ngozi ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with former US trade representative and Council on Foreign Relations President Michael Froman about how global trade moves forward in the midst of President Trump's tariffs.

It is not every day that a former chief trade negotiator for the U.S. and the titular leader of the U.S. foreign policy establishment urges the abandonment of a rule-based international trading system ...

Order and Execution Management Systems (OEMS) are the most critical components for every sell side trading operation. But despite this, the industry has seen a noticeable lack of real innovation in ...

Didarul Alam is widely recognized for his work shaping digital trade infrastructure at the systems level—where technology, operations, and institutional credibility intersect. Over more than a decade, ...

Since the WTO’s creation in 1995, the globalised trading system has driven the world’s economic growth, technology and development. Trade volumes rose five-fold. Over a billion people were lifted out ...

This article originally appeared in the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs’ CIDOB International Yearbook 2026 and was translated to Spanish and Catalan. It is reprinted with permission. Just ...