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Demand for critical minerals fuels conflict but could help resource-rich nations, WTO says

The head of the World Trade Organization says surging global demand for critical minerals should be “a once-in-a-lifetime chance” for resource-rich countries in Africa and elsewhere to harness wealth and improve life for millions.

Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), speaks to the media about the report "Global Trade Outlook and Statistics – October 2025 update", during a press conference at the headquarters of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

WTO says AI-related buying binge and a spike in US imports spur unexpected rise in goods trade

Chinese Premier Li Qiang, right, shakes hands with Director-General of the World Trade Organization Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in Tianjin, ahead of the annual World Economic Forum New Champions meeting Monday, June 26, 2023. (Wang Zhao/Pool Photo via AP, Filer)

China gives up developing-country benefits to boost WTO in face of Trump tariffs

Fisherman Kassim Abdalla Zingizi holds a yellowfin tuna after a catch in Vanga, Kenya, on June 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

Long-wrought WTO agreement aimed at reducing overfishing takes effect

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during an event at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil requests consultations at World Trade Organization over Trump’s tariffs

Argentine farmers look forward to the EU and Mercosur agreement

Talks on a landmark free trade deal between the European Union and four South American countries started so long ago that the euro wasn’t even in circulation, China hadn’t yet joined the World Trade Organization and Venezuela was still America’s top oil provider. (AP video by Victor R. Caivano)

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Chinese President Xi Jinping hugs Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after delivering his opening speech for the opening ceremony of the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the Forum of China and Community of Latin American and Caribbean States at China National Convention Center in Beijing, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China seeks a united front with Latin America in countering Trump’s trade war

World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, left, shakes hands with Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the latter's office in Tokyo Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (Kazuhiro Nogi/Pool Photo via AP)

World trade chief says global free trade is in a crisis while on visit to Japan

European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen delivers her speech on EU support for peace in Ukraine, Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP Photo/Antonin Utz)

The EU publishes a US product hit list and prepares for WTO action against Trump’s tariffs

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, left, Director-General of the WTO talks to the media about this WTO's "Global Trade Outlook and Statistics - April 2025" during a press conference at the headquarters of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

World Trade Organization says global trade could slide this year because of Trump’s tariff policies

A worker loads rolls of steel plate at a steel market in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province, Monday, March 31, 2025. (Chinatopix Via AP)

China slaps a 34% tax on all US imports in retaliation for Trump’s tariffs

Former Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel delivers the WTO Presidential Lecture on Friday, March 7, 2025 at the WTO's headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Jamey Keaten)

World Trade Organization chief says US concerns on tariffs need to be heard

Packages are seen stacked on the doorstep of a residence, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Upper Darby, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Hong Kong to file complaint with WTO on US tariffs

FILE - Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), speaks during the panel discussion at the WTO's Presidential Lecture Series, at the headquarters of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

Okonjo-Iweala given 2nd term as WTO chief as Trump’s return looms over trade body’s future

FILE - Containers are piled up in the harbor in Hamburg, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, file)

World Trade Organization slightly raises 2024 goods trade forecast but wary of potential setbacks

Emirati Minister of State for Foreign Trade Thani bin Ahmed al-Zeyoudi, right, prepares to speak into a microphone provided by World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at a WTO summit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. The World Trade Organization opened its biennial meeting Monday in the United Arab Emirates as the bloc faces pressure from the United States and other nations ahead of a year of consequential elections around the globe. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

World Trade Organization ends meeting in UAE after failing to reach major agreements

World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala talks to Emirati Minister of State for Foreign Trade Thani bin Ahmed al-Zeyoudi on stage at a WTO summit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. The World Trade Organization opened its biennial meeting Monday in the United Arab Emirates as the bloc faces pressure from the United States and other nations ahead of a year of consequential elections around the globe. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Global economy is weighed down by war, uncertainty and instability, trade chief warns

Tax-free status of movie, music and games traded online is on table as WTO nations meet in Abu Dhabi

FILE - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization takes part in a panel at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. The head of the World Trade Organization insisted it remains relevant and is focused on reform “no matter who comes into power, when,” as Donald Trump — who as U.S. president bypassed its rules by slapping tariffs on America’s friends and foes alike — makes another run at the White House. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

WTO chief insists trade body remains relevant as tariff-wielding Trump makes a run at White House

Japanese Agriculture Minister Ichiro Miyashita, right, and Malaysian celebrity Amber Chia attend an event at Japanese store, Don Don Donki in Kuala Lumpur Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023 to promote the safety and deliciousness of Japanese scallops to shoppers. Japan hopes to resolve the issue of China's ban on its seafood within the scope of the World Trade Organization ambit and will hold food fairs overseas to bolster seafood exports amid safety concerns over the release of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Miyashita said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Eileen Ng)

Japan hopes to resolve China’s seafood ban over Fukushima’s wastewater release within WTO’s scope

FILE - United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai addresses the media on recent developments in transatlantic trade after a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels, on Jan. 17, 2023. The Biden administration is pressing its case for a new approach to global trade. On Wednesday, April 5, Tai is expected to call for a strategy of what’s known as “friend-shoring’’ — building up supply chains among allied countries and reducing dependence on geopolitical rivals such as China. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

To counter China, US trade rep seeks closer ties to allies

FILE - A man walks past Chinese and Hong Kong flags to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong handover to China, in Hong Kong, on June 24, 2022. World Trade Organization arbitrators concluded Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, that the United States was out of line in requiring that products from Hong Kong be labeled as “Made in China,” a move that was part of Washington's response to a crackdown on pro-democracy protests there in 2019-2020. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

WTO rejects US ‘Made in China’ labeling on Hong Kong goods

FILE - The closed Lithuanian Embassy is seen in Beijing, on Dec. 16, 2021. The European Union has announced that it has begun legal action at the World Trade Organization against China over what it says are import restrictions Beijing has imposed on Lithuania. The European Commission estimates that China has cut trade from Lithuania by 80% this year. It followed the Baltic state breaking with diplomatic custom in 2021 by letting the Taiwanese office in Vilnius bear the name Taiwan, instead of Chinese Taipei. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

EU takes China to WTO over Lithuania trade dispute

EU, US set up task force to resolve electric vehicle feud

Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, speaks to the media about WTO revised trade forecast during a press conference, at the headquarters of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

WTO predicts trade growth to slow next year amid crises

World Trade Organization Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

WTO joins FIFA in African project despite Qatar controversy

FILE - An electric vehicle charges at a shopping center in Emeryville, Calif., Aug. 10, 2022. A new tax credit for U.S. buyers of qualifying electric vehicles made in North America has ignited the specter of a trade war as a domestic imperative of the Biden administration and Democrats collides with the complex realities of globalization. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)

New electric vehicle tax credits raise talk of trade war

FILE - The 2024 Chevrolet SS EV is shown in Warren, Mich., Tuesday, July 12, 2022. The European Union expressed concern Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022 that a new U.S. tax credit plan aimed at encouraging Americans to buy electric vehicles would discriminate against European producers and break World Trade Organization rules. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

EU says US electric vehicle tax credit could break WTO rules

Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) speaks at a press conference after the closing of the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) at the headquarters of WTO in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, June 17, 2022. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

WTO ministers reach deals on fisheries, food, COVID vaccines

Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of Consumer Affairs of India, speaks in front of journalists before the closing of the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12), at the headquarters of the World Trade Organization (WTO), in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, June 16, 2022. Talks are going down to the wire as the World Trade Organization is set to wrap up its first ministerial-level meeting in more than four years.(Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

WTO talks down to the wire with no major deals yet in sight

Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, left, and Timur Suleimenov, Chair of the 12th Ministerial Conference attend a press conference before the opening of the 12th Ministerial Conference at the headquarters of the World Trade Organization (WTO), in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, June 12, 2022. For the first time in 4 1/2 years, after a pandemic pause, government ministers from WTO countries will gather for four days starting Sunday to tackle issues like overfishing of the seas, COVID-19 vaccines for the developing world and food security. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

WTO holds big meeting to tackle vaccines, food shortages

Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), attends an event on World Ocean Day with Finley the fish, made of ice, on place des Nations before of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference (MC12) where a deal to end harmful fisheries subsidies could be reached in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

WTO looks to reach trade deals with its fate on the line

Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), speaks to the media about WTO 2022-2023 trade forecast during a press conference, at the headquarters of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

WTO: War in Ukraine to curb trade, economic growth this year

In this photo released by Ukrainian State Emergency Service press service, firefighters evacuate an elderly woman from an apartment building hit by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 14, 2022. (Ukrainian State Emergency Service via AP)

EU imposes 4th set of sanctions against Russia for war

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during her weekly news conference, Wednesday, March 9, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

House approves ban on Russian oil to US, bolstering Biden

FILE - In this April 1, 2021 file picture, World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala attends a news conference at WTO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been named the keynote speaker at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s commencement. The school announced Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, that the Nigerian economist and MIT alumna will address graduates at a ceremony on May 27. (Denis Balibouse/Pool via AP)

WTO leader Okonjo-Iweala chosen to address MIT grads

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