Our front page: The WTO frets about ‘fragmentation’

The top stories from the latest issue of Inside U.S. Trade . WTO, in latest annual report, worries about far-reaching fragmentation . “The case for strengthening the trading system is far stronger than the case for walking away from it,” World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said in an introduction to the group’s World Trade Report 2023 , citing trends that she said “could ultimately fragment the whole economy.” The report says that “the evolving narrative questioning international trade is...