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Canada and Mexico warn of retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products including meat, dairy, chocolate, machinery and furniture over U.S. meat labeling rules.

Brazil's candidate for director-general of the World Trade Organization has been chosen for the position, replacing Pascal Lamy.

The World Trade Organization is down to 5 candidates to replace term-ending Director-General Pascal Lamy.

Antigua may be the first nation to have a government-run torrent site, effectively legalizing piracy, with World Trade Organization approval.

The EU and several Latin American countries have ended a trade dispute after agreeing to gradually lower tariffs on banana exports to Europe.

The World Trade Organization forbade China Thursday to impose duties on certain U.S. steel exports, in a case affecting Ohio and Pennsylvania.

South African poultry farmers charge that Brazil is exporting too many chicken into the country, threatening jobs and their livelihood.

President Barack Obama will launch a trade suit against China alleging unfair trade practices by the Chinese government to benefit its auto industry, an U.S administration official said on Monday.

A World Trade Organization panel ruled Monday that China had discriminated against U.S. bank card suppliers in favor of a state-owned enterprise, a decision U.S. card issuers hope could level the playing field and open up new opportunities to China's $1 trillion electronic payments market.

The United States will file an unfair trade complaint with the World Trade Organization against China for its duties on U.S.-made car imports.

The European Union has filed a suit with the World Trade Organization against Argentina?s import restrictions, raising the dispute between the EU and the South American nation only weeks after Buenos Aires nationalized Spanish oil firm Repsol?s subsidiary in the country.

The United States has approached the World Trade Organization (WTO) against India's import restrictions on US agricultural products.

India will file a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization against the US over its visa policy, which India says is discriminatory to Indian companies, the Wall Street Journal has reported quoting a Ministry of Commerce official.

The European Union is preparing to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization over Argentina's new import restrictions, and may seek additional action in response to the country's recent nationalization of its largest oil firm YPF. The Argentinian government seized control of the company from Spanish oil major Repsol.

The head of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Alicia Barcena suggested Wednesday that Mexico’s 2012 GDP growth could be higher than expected due to the pace of recovery in the United States and Mexico’s open economic policies relative to other countries in the region.

Trade growth is expected to slow for a second year in 2012 amid severe downside risks that could push it even further below the 20-year average of 5.4 percent, the Geneva-based body forecast Thursday.

The United States said on Friday it would appeal a World Trade Organization ruling against a law requiring country-of-origin labels on all meat sold in grocery stores, a move that disappointed Canada and Mexico, both of which want the law changed.

The United States, Europe and Japan have joined forces to challenge China's restrictions on exports of rare-earth metals, escalating a trade row over access to some of the most important raw materials used in advanced technologies.

The U.S., the European Union and Japan will file a complaint with the World Trade Organization, which arbitrates international trade disputes, on Tuesday over Chinese export caps on rare earth minerals used in high-tech manufacturing, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The World Trade Organization said on Monday it had upheld the bulk of a ruling that Boeing received billions of dollars of subsidies to compete with Europe's Airbus , as both sides once again claimed victory in a long-running trade row.

The European Union, United States and Japan formally asked the World Trade Organization on Tuesday to settle a dispute with China over Beijing's restriction on exports of raw materials, including rare earth elements critical to major industries.

The World Trade Organization has ruled that aircraft manufacturer Boeing received $3 billion to $4 billion in illegal subsidies in the form of federal research grants and local tax breaks, the top trade official said on Monday.

The Geneva-based trade body will uphold a ruling that Boeing got billions in dollars in unfair subsidies from the U.S. government, Reuters reported.

The World Trade Organization has broadly upheld a ruling that Boeing Co (BA.N) took billions of dollars of unfair subsidies, breathing new life into an epic trade spat that has already faulted European aid to Airbus, people familiar with the matter said.

Leading U.S. software and technology companies on Wednesday pressed President Barack Obama's administration for quick action on a new Indian government policy that they said threatens U.S. exports to the fast-growing economy.

A U.S. trade bill targeting Chinese imports goes against international rules and Beijing will not adjust the value of its currency to try to bridge a trade deficit that is Washington's problem to fix, China's commerce minister said on Wednesday.

A World Trade Organisation ruling against China's restrictions on raw material exports could force changes to some of its rare earth policies but is unlikely to yield the boost in exports of the metals that consumers want to see.

China's appeal of a ruling that found restrictions on exports of nine raw materials as breaking global rules has been rejected by World Trade Organization.

China lost an appeal at the World Trade Organization on Monday in a case about its export restrictions on raw materials, a ruling that could make it harder for major commodity exporters to withhold supplies on the global market.