-2018 may have caused a 1 percentage point decline in world trade growth. The paper also finds that the impact of policy …

contributions to global trade growth have come from East Asian countries in the developing world and the Euro area in the developed … world. Merchandise trade, which in recent years has been less resilient than services trade, picked up, growing by 4 …

place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …