This year’s Public Forum showcases a battered – but many say resilient – WTO

GENEVA -- The World Trade Organization Public Forum this year was rife with questions about the institution’s future – along with assurances it will bear up amid newly turbulent trade winds from across the Atlantic, though officials and stakeholders here are still awaiting a clearer sense of how the Trump administration intends to engage. “Over the years, the history of the WTO negotiations has led to many people pronouncing its untimely demise,” WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala quipped at the outset...