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The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has exposed the upsides and downsides of international trade in medical goods and services. Open trade can increase access to medical services and goods—and the critical inputs needed to manufacture them—improve quality and variety, and reduce costs. However, excessive concentration of production, restrictive trade policies, supply chain disruptions, and regulatory divergence can jeopardize the ability of p Read More

Les Profils commerciaux 2022 fournissent une série d’indicateurs clés sur le commerce des marchandises et des services de 197 économies. Concernant le commerce des marchandises, les principales exportations et importations de produits agricoles et non agricoles sont répertoriées avec les principales origines et destinations de ces produits. Concernant le commerce des services, une ventilation détaillée est donnée pour les services de transport, Read More

Extrait mis à jour : une approche intégrée englobant santé, commerce et propriété intellectuelle pour répondre à la pandémie de COVID-19, 30 août 2021. La pandémie de COVID-19 constitue une crise de santé publique mondiale extraordinaire. Elle a rendu nécessaire l’intensification de la coopération au niveau planétaire. Dès le début, elle a soulevé des questions à l’intersection entre la politique de santé publique, la politique commerciale ainsi que le cad Read More

Updated extract: integrated health, trade and IP approach to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, 30 August 2021. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic constitutes an extraordinary global public health crisis. It has created a pressing need for intensified global cooperation. The pandemic has from its outset raised issues at the crossroads of public health policy, trade policy and the framework for and management of innovation, including those r Read More

La Ayuda para el Comercio tiene por objeto permitir a los países en desarrollo, y en particular a los países menos adelantados (PMA), utilizar el comercio para fomentar el crecimiento económico, el desarrollo sostenible y la reducción de la pobreza. Promueve la integración de los países en desarrollo, especialmente los PMA, en el sistema multilateral de comercio y su objetivo es movilizar el apoyo necesario para crear capacidad de oferta e infr Read More

Climate change is having a profound impact on people’s lives across the world. Mitigating and adapting to climate change will require major economic investment and coordinated action to transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy. The World Trade Report 2022 explores the complex interlinkages between climate change, international trade, and climate and trade policies. Although international trade generates greenhouse gas emissions wh Read More

Aid for Trade seeks to enable developing countries, and in particular least-developed countries (LDCs), to use trade as a means of fostering economic growth, sustainable development and poverty reduction. It promotes the integration of developing countries, especially LDCs, into the multilateral trading system and aims to galvanize support to build supply-side capacity and trade-related infrastructure in these countries to improve trade performance. This pub Read More

This report, which was submitted to the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in 2023, highlights the role of trade in helping countries recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also underlines the WTO’s contribution to improving livelihoods and making trade work for people.

In December 2022, the Gender Research Hub organized, alongside the WTO, the World Trade Congress on Gender – the first international research conference to focus on trade and gender. This high-level event brought together eminent trade and gender experts to present the latest research in the field. It also provided a platform for researchers and policymakers to exchange views and build partnerships to promote further innovative research. Th Read More

Les « Perspectives du commerce mondial et statistiques » de l’OMC analyse l’évolution récente du commerce mondial jusqu’au deuxième trimestre de 2023 et présente les prévisions actualisées de l’OMC concernant le volume du commerce de marchandises en 2023 et 2024. L’évolution des échanges de marchandises et de services commerciaux en valeur est également présentée, avec des ventilations par secteur et par région. La publication du r Read More