{"id":605,"date":"2026-04-12T05:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/605\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T05:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:30:29","slug":"carneys-mega-anti-trump-alliance-starts-quest-to-save-world-trade-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/605\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney\u2019s mega anti-Trump alliance starts quest to save world trade \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among other squabbles, the WTO, which operates by consensus, has seen its 166 members at odds over whether to make e-commerce and digital trade \u2014 including software, cloud services, and music and movie streaming \u2014 permanently tariff-free.<\/p>\n<p>On the sidelines of the four-day showdown in Cameroon\u2019s capital, Yaound\u00e9, the EU and the 12-nation CPTPP bloc, which together represent nearly a third of the global economy, will hatch a plan Friday to keep the WTO on the rails. <\/p>\n<p>Or, if it can\u2019t be salvaged, \u201cbuild a new order\u201d as Carney urged in his address to the World Economic Forum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Canada has added a bit of oomph into this conversation since Mark Carney\u2019s speech,\u201d U.K. Trade Minister Chris Bryant told POLITICO ahead of the WTO\u2019s 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14), where he is serving as a facilitator, guiding the multilateral reform talks.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Carney offered to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/mark-carney-trade-alliance-canada-eu-cptpp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">broker a bridge<\/a>\u201d between the EU and the fast-growing Indo-Pacific bloc \u2014\u00a0which comprises Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Brunei, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and, most recently, the U.K. \u2014\u00a0in the form of a new anti-Trump trade pact that also aims to reform the WTO.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible the WTO \u201ccould become the organization that it really, really wants to be, which is able to make decisions and take things forward,\u201d Bryant said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among other squabbles, the WTO, which operates by consensus, has seen its 166 members at odds over whether&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[364,365,366,367,368,369,370,17,371,337,372,373,374,375,376,377,378,162,379,380,381,382,383,384,385,111,386,387,388,389,390,391,392,393,394,395,396,397,398,399,400,401,402,403,404],"class_list":{"0":"post-605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mark-carney","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-appellate-body","10":"tag-asia","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-bridges","13":"tag-brunei","14":"tag-cameroon","15":"tag-canada","16":"tag-chile","17":"tag-china","18":"tag-chris-bryant","19":"tag-cloud","20":"tag-courts","21":"tag-cptpp","22":"tag-davos","23":"tag-denis-redonnet","24":"tag-digital","25":"tag-donald-trump","26":"tag-dubai","27":"tag-e-commerce","28":"tag-global-economy","29":"tag-governance","30":"tag-investment","31":"tag-japan","32":"tag-malaysia","33":"tag-mark-carney","34":"tag-markets","35":"tag-maros-sefcovic","36":"tag-mexico","37":"tag-music","38":"tag-new-zealand","39":"tag-peru","40":"tag-platforms","41":"tag-rights","42":"tag-rules-of-origin","43":"tag-services","44":"tag-singapore","45":"tag-software","46":"tag-stability","47":"tag-supply-chains","48":"tag-tariffs","49":"tag-trade","50":"tag-u-k-trade","51":"tag-united-kingdom","52":"tag-vietnam"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}