WTO Annual Report 2025

The WTO Annual Report provides a comprehensive account of the organization's activities in 2024 and the early part of 2025. It looks back at recent key events, 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 WTO has an important role to play as a forum where all 166 of our members can share their trade concerns and propose solutions. WTO committees dealing with health and safety standards and technical regulations protect consumer safety while enabling members to minimize trade frictions. Other committees work to accelerate the flow of goods across borders, promote trade in services, protect intellectual property or make government procurement processes more open, transparent and competitive. World trade is about much more than just tariffs – and so is the WTO.”

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.