WTO Strikes Global Trade Deals Deep Into Overtime

WTO Strikes Global Trade Deals Deep Into Overtime
World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala attends a news conference ahead of the Ministerial Conference (MC12) in Geneva on June 12, 2022. Denis Balibouse/Reuters
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GENEVA—The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) 164 members approved a series of trade agreements early on Friday that included commitments on fish and pledges on health and food security after more than five gruelling days of negotiations.

The deals were ground out over five days of bargaining at a conference of more than 100 trade ministers that was seen as a test of the ability of nations to strike multilateral trade deals amid geopolitical tensions heightened by the Ukraine war.