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The World Trade Organization is due on August 31 to adopt a ruling by its top court condemning U.S. anti-dumping measures, allowing Japan to seek retaliation against Washington, a WTO agenda showed on Friday.

Asia is leading a recovery in global trade, but world trade volumes are still expected to shrink 10 percent this year, the World Trade Organization said on Wednesday.

Asia is leading a recovery in global trade, but world trade volumes are still expected to shrink 10 percent this year, the World Trade Organization said on Wednesday.

The global economic downturn is far from over, and few countries have dismantled the dangerous protectionist barriers they imposed in response to it, World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy said on Monday.

Economic upheaval has raised the urgency of clinching a new global free trade deal, and will be discussed by G8 leaders this week, the head of the World Trade Organisation said on Tuesday.

Hong Kong authorities called upon all WTO members to resist protectionism, according to statements released on Friday.

Countries at the World Trade Organisation complained on Friday about China's proposed Internet filter rules which the United States deemed draconian and the European Union urged it to scrap.

The United States appears to have won a victory against Chinese barriers to imported films, books and recorded music in a preliminary World Trade Organization ruling not yet made public.

China on Wednesday rejected U.S. and European charges that its restrictions on raw materials exports violate international trade rules, saying that its policies were in keeping with WTO regulations.

The United States and European Union on Tuesday began a case against China at the World Trade Organization over its export restrictions on industrial raw materials, saying Beijing was trying to tilt the playing field in favor of its own industries.

The United States and European Union are launching a World Trade Organization case against China over its export restrictions on raw materials, officials announced on Tuesday.

The head of the World Trade Organisation is hopeful long-running trade talks can be wrapped up next year.

Russia threw its 16-year bid to join the World Trade Organization into jeopardy on Tuesday when Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Moscow would only join the trade body in partnership with two former Soviet republics.

The European Union, the United States and Russia will hold detailed ministerial talks next week on Moscow's bid to join the World Trade Organization, diplomats said on Friday.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) chief urged the United States and India to start talks as soon as possible to tackle protectionism and called on Gulf Arabs to open up to international business.

The United States launched an appeal Wednesday in a dispute with Japan at the World Trade Organization over its treatment of unfairly-priced imports.

The World Trade Organization's top court issued a mixed ruling on Thursday in a case involving U.S. treatment of unfairly priced imports but urged the United States to comply with previous WTO rulings in the dispute.

The Obama administration wants to ensure that legislation being crafted by Congress to fight global climate change does not violate international trade rules and backfire on U.S. exports, the top U.S. trade official said in a letter to a Republican lawmaker.

A U.S. crackdown on European online gambling breaches World Trade Organization rules and would justify action at the World Trade Organization, the European Commission said on Thursday.

China and the United States traded blows over entertainment and software piracy Friday as the World Trade Organization formally ruled some Chinese practices were illegal but exonerated it of other complaints.

China said a World Trade Organization report approved Friday rejected the majority of intellectual property complaints made by the United States and broadly backed Beijing's stance against commercial piracy.

Leaders of the G20 developed and emerging countries should not backtrack on their agreement last year to fight protectionism when they meet in London in April, the head of the World Trade Organization said on Wednesday.

A new World Trade Organization (WTO) accord could improve access to clean-energy tools in poorer countries, but any deal making it easier to ship cargo internationally would also carry a heavy carbon footprint.

Complaints from China have added to growing doubts over whether a global accord can be reached in World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks, diplomats said.

Leading negotiating nations are closer than ever before to concluding successfully the arduous Doha round of world trade talks, India's trade minister said on Tuesday, adding an end-2008 deadline could be reached.

World trade talks appeared to be making progress on Wednesday as the leaders of Brazil, India and South Africa said they were committed to reaching a deal.

It wants to examine restrictions on the sale of U.S. films, music, books, magazines and newspapers in China for an upcoming meeting

World leaders signaled on Tuesday that a long-awaited global trade deal could soon be within reach, reviving some hopes that the Doha trade talks may finally move beyond years of deadlock and discord.

Asia-Pacific ministers agreed on Thursday to accelerate global free-trade talks, saying that negotiations were at a crucial and probably final phase.