Trips and load containers in the port of Qingdao in the province of Shandong of China in the east of December 4, 2024.
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) warned on Wednesday that the perspective for global trade has been “abruptly deteriorated” following the rate of the US President of the United States.
“The perspective for global trade has deteriorated sharply due to an increase in rates and commercial policy
Uncertainty, “WTO said in his latest report of” Commercial and Global Statistics Perspectives “on Wednesday.
Based on rates currently in force, and including a 90 -day suspension of “reciprocal rates”, the volume of world merchandise trade is now expected to decrease by 0.2% in 2025, before publishing a “modest” recovery of 2.5% in 2026.
The decrease is expected to be particularly steep in North America, where exports are forecast to decrease by 12.6% this year.
The WTO also warned that there are “severe downward risks”, including the application of “reciprocal” tariffs and a broader spill of political uncertainty, “which could lead to an even more clear opkine or 1.5% in global countries of goods.”
The recent tariff disturbances follow a strong year for world trade in 2024, the doors that the merchandise trade grew 2.9% and the trade of commercial services expanded by 6.8%, the WTO said.
The new estimate of a 0.2% decrease in world trade by 2025 is almost three lower percentage points than it would have been under a “low rate” reference scenario, the WTO added, and marks a significant reversal since the beginning of the year in which the economists of the commercial body expected to see the expansion of continuous trade backed by the improvement of macroconic conditions.
“The risks to the prognosis include the implementation of reciprocal tariffs currently suspended by the United States, as well as a broader spill of the uncertainty of commercial policy beyond commercial relations linked to the United States,” the WTO said.
“If they are promulgated, reciprocal tariffs would reduce the growth of world merchandise trade by 0.6 additional percentage points, which raises particular risks for less developed countries (LDC), while a propagation of exchange of response points at full speed.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, offers comments on rates in the Rosas Garden in the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025.
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Trump surprised commercial partners and global markets in early April, when he announced a series of “reciprocal” tariffs in imports from more than 180 countries. Beijing was harder of all, with the duty of the US. In Chinese imports that now have a total of 145%. China in turn responded to Washington with retaliation rates or up to 125% in American imports.
The widespread market turbulence after the tariff announcement caused a temporary climb by Trump, and the president announced last week that the new tariffs on imports of most Wolde -Woldon’s commercial partners. Westhons
The WTO said in its Wednesday report that it is likely that the impact of commercial policy changes recently vary abruptly from one region to another.
In the adjusted forecast, North America now subtracts 1.7 percentage points of world merchandise trade in 2025, which makes the general figure negative.
Meanwhile, Asia and Europe continue to contribute positively, but less than on the reference scenario, with the contribution of Asia in half to 0.6 percentage points.
It is expected that the interruption in the US-China trade “triggers a significant commercial diversion,” the WTO added, which increases the Conerns among the third markets on the increase in China’s competition.
“It is expected that Chinese goods exports will increase by 4% to 9% in all regions outside North America, since trade is redirected. At the same time, it is expected that China’s US imports abruptly fall into sectors, such as textiles, clothing equipment and electrical equipment, creating new export opportunities so that other suppliers can fill the gap,” said the gap, “said the gap. Commerce, which observed that this could open for export countries to the United States to increase their exports to increase the export market to which the export market to the United States.
