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Global trade is expected to plummet this year in the wake of President Donald Trump\u2019s tariff offensive, fuelling uncertainty that threatens \u201csevere negative consequences\u201d for the world, the World Trade Organization warned Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Since returning to office, Trump has imposed a 10 percent tariff on imports of goods from around the world along with 25 percent levies on steel, aluminium and cars.<\/p>\n
While Trump made a U-turn on steeper tariffs for dozens of countries, he has escalated a trade war with China, slapping 145 percent levies on Chinese goods while Beijing retaliated with a 125 percent duty on US products.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m very concerned,\u201d WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told reporters, adding that the organisation expected to see trade volumes between the United States and China crumble by a whopping 81 percent.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe enduring uncertainty threatens to act as a brake on global growth, with severe negative consequences for the world, the most vulnerable economies in particular,\u201d she warned in a statement.<\/p>\n
At the start of the year, WTO expected to see global trade expand in 2025 and 2026, with merchandise trade seen growing in line with global GDP, and trade in services growing even faster.<\/p>\n
But in the organisation\u2019s annual global trade outlook published Wednesday, it determined that as things stand, world merchandise trade is on course to fall 0.2 percent this year, \u201cbefore posting a modest recovery of 2.5 percent in 2026\u201d.<\/p>\n
The 2025 number, calculated in line with the tariff situation on April 14, is already nearly three percentage points lower than what would have been expected without the tariffs Trump has slapped on countries around the globe.<\/p>\n
The WTO warned that \u201csevere downside risks\u201d could see trade \u201cshrink even further, to 1.5 percent in 2025, if the situation deteriorates\u201d.<\/p>\n
The WTO also cautioned that services trade, while not directly subject to tariffs, was also \u201cexpected to be adversely affected\u201d.<\/p>\n
The global volume of commercial services trade was now forecast to grow by 4.0 percent \u2014 around a percentage point less than expected.<\/p>\n
This year, the impact of the tariffs was expected to be felt quite differently in different regions, the WTO said.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder the current policy landscape, North America is expected to see a 12.6-percent decline in exports and 9.6-percent drop in imports in 2025,\u201d the organisation said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe region\u2019s performance would subtract 1.7 percentage points from world merchandise trade growth in 2025, turning the overall figure negative,\u201d it pointed out.<\/p>\n
Asia was projected to post \u201cmodest growth\u201d, with both exports and imports set to swell by 1.6 percent.<\/p>\n
Chinese merchandise exports in particular were forecast to rise by between four and nine percent across all regions except North America, \u201cas trade is redirected\u201d, WTO said.<\/p>\n
And European exports were on track to grow by one percent, and imports by 1.9 percent.<\/p>\n
The WTO said its economists expect global gross domestic product (GDP) to grow 2.2 percent this year, and 2.4 percent in 2026.<\/p>\n
The organisation said it expected tit-for-tat tariffs to have only a \u201climited\u201d direct impact on that figure.<\/p>\n
But Okonjo-Iweala told reporters the \u201csharp projected decline in US-China bilateral trade\u201d risked more \u201cfar-reaching consequences\u201d.<\/p>\n
While US-China trade accounts for just around three percent of world merchandise trade, she warned that what appears to be the ongoing \u201cdecoupling of the two economies\u201d could lead to \u201ca broader fragmentation of the global economy along geopolitical lines into two isolated blocks\u201d.<\/p>\n
In that scenario, \u201cour estimates suggest that global \u2026 GDP would be lowered by nearly seven percent in the long term\u201d, by 2040, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is quite significant and substantial.\u201d<\/p>\n
Faced with this crisis, Okonjo-Iweala called for reform, urging countries to \u201cinject dynamism\u201d into the WTO.<\/p>\n
In particular, she called for the organisation, which only acts through consensus \u2014 a painstakingly slow process \u2013, to \u201cstreamline decision-making, and adapt our agreements to better meet today\u2019s global realities\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t waste this crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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