E-commerce, abbreviated as EC, as the name suggests, consists of two aspects of its content, first electronic means, and the other is the commercial and trade activities.

Industry experts say the WTO's final auto parts ruling will have little impact on China's auto industry currently, according to newspaper reports Wednesday.

The Ministry of Commerce confirmed it is appealing the World Trade Organization ruling against China's auto parts import tariff regime on Monday.

World trade growth could ease to 4.5 percent in 2008 as a sharp economic slowdown in developed countries will only be partly offset by strong gains in emerging economies, the WTO said.

China has suffered its first defeat at the World Trade Organization, and Australia's low unemployment level means interest rates may be raised again. Claudia Blume has more on these and other regional business stories from VOA's Asia News Center in Hong Kong.

Developing countries have welcomed WTO proposals to reduce barriers to farm trade but voiced reservations on those calling for a further opening of their own markets for industrial goods.

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has launched an investigation into Australia's decision to ban New Zealand apple imports.

The head of the World Trade Organisation marked sixty years of the multilateral global trading system on Tuesday with a warning against any revival of protectionism.

China said it would veto a World Trade Organization compromise for liberalizing global commerce in manufactured goods if it failed to shield Chinese industries from foreign competition, a threat that brought a stern response from the European Union.

A further CHF525,913 from Japan to the WTO training programme for the benefit of developing countries

India announced on Friday that there is no future for the grouping of four key WTO members as a platform for breaking the impasse in multilateral trade talks.

The WTO Secretariat reported that during the period 1 July-31 December 2006, the number of initiations of new anti-dumping investigations showed a modest increase compared with the corresponding period of 2005. However, the number of new measures applied continued to decline.