The volume of world merchandise trade will fall sharply in the first half of 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic disrupts the global economy, according to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Goods Trade Barometer released on Wednesday.
Declining world trade will leave many countries poorer as a global economic recession appears all but certain...
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