{"id":54677,"date":"2025-06-27T08:42:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T08:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/wto-reports-goods-trade-rise-in-early-2025-but-slower-growth-ahead\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T08:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T08:45:41","slug":"wto-reports-goods-trade-rise-in-early-2025-but-slower-growth-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wto-reports-goods-trade-rise-in-early-2025-but-slower-growth-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"WTO reports goods trade rise in early 2025, but slower growth ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WTO&#8217;s latest Goods Trade Barometer, a composite leading indicator for global merchandise trade, rose to 103.5 from 102.8 in March. The rise was driven by importers frontloading purchases ahead of anticipated higher tariffs, the WTO said.<\/p>\n<p>Barometer values above 100 indicate above-trend trade volumes, while values below 100 suggest that goods trade has either fallen below trend or is likely to decline in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>However, the forward-looking new export orders index fell to 97.9, pointing to weaker trade growth later in the year, the WTO said.<\/p>\n<p>The WTO has forecast a basically flat growth in global merchandise trade at 0.1 percent, after the U.S. tariff policy uncertainty and subsequent developments had caused fluctuations in the forecast.<\/p>\n<p>The WTO warned of possible trade contraction if U.S. &#8220;reciprocal tariffs&#8221; are reinstated or if trade policy uncertainty spreads globally.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-89898\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/jon.jpg\" alt=\"The World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Thursday that global goods trade posted an uptick in early 2025, but forecast weaker trade growth later this year.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Thursday that global goods trade posted an uptick in early 2025, but forecast weaker trade growth later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000089897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000089897,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jon.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jon.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jon.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jon.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jon.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jon.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000089897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54677"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54677"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}