key publications

WTO Annual Report 2024

The WTO has published its 2024 Annual Report, providing a comprehensive account of the organization’s activities in 2023 and the early part of 2024. The Report looks back at key events over the past year, such as the 13th Ministerial Conference, and describes the WTO's work in addressing the challenges and opportunities facing world trade.

The Report opens with a message from Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who says: “The future of trade is services, digital, green — and it must be inclusive. This Annual Report describes how, over the course of 2023 and through to our 13th Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi in February 2024, the WTO and its members moved forward on all these fronts, helping build the enabling environment for trade's evolution in the years ahead.”

A summary of the past year at the start of the report is followed by more detailed accounts of the WTO's various areas of activity and an overview of how the WTO is structured.