Reports
Azevêdo’s health-check on global trade: Growth recovering but restrictions on the rise
17/02/2014
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, in presenting his first
global trade-monitoring report to WTO members on 17 February 2014, said that
trade growth projections for this year are “much improved, hovering somewhere
between 4.0% and 4.5%.” However, he said “407 new restrictive measures were
reported during the review period,” affecting 1.3 % of world merchandise
imports—valued at $240 billion.