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WTO’s Forecasts for Global Trade Are Clouded by Political Uncertainty

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By Brendan Murray

April 11, 2024 at 11:00 AM UTC

Donald Trump was thousands of miles from the shores of Switzerland’s Lake Geneva on Wednesday but not out of mind.

At the World Trade Organization’s press conference to explain its latest global outlook, the first reporter called on went for what’s called the double-barreled approach.