WTO

English

Proper noun

WTO

1. (international law) Initialism of World Trade Organization.
   • 2018 December 1, Julian Borger, “G20 agreement backs 'rules-based' order but bows to Trump on trade reforms”, in The Guardian‎^[1], London, United Kingdom, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 April 2019:

     A senior White House official, who declined to speak on the record, called the summit a success in part because the US had been able to exclude language on multilateralism, and because “for the first time ever, the G20 recognized the WTO is currently falling short of meeting its objectives and that it’s in need of reform”.

   • 2022 March 10, Kaitlan Collins, Manu Raju, Kate Sullivan, MJ Lee and John Harwood, “Biden calls for suspending normal trade relations with Russia and will ban imports of vodka and seafood”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     “The question is PNTR, which is absent. And then they had some other stuff on the WTO in there, which is kind of hollow if we don’t do PNTR,” Crapo said earlier in the day.

2. (historical, international law) Initialism of Warsaw Treaty Organization.

Coordinate terms

• (World Trade Organization): GATT

Translations

World Trade Organization

• Albanian: OBT
• Armenian: ԱՀԿ (hy) (AHK)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 世貿 / 世贸 (sai³ mau⁶)

  Mandarin: WTO, 世貿 / 世贸 (zh) (Shì-Mào)

• Finnish: WTO (fi)
• French: OMC (fr) f
• Italian: OMC
• Polish: WTO (pl) n or f
• Portuguese: Organização Mundial do Comércio f, OMC f
• Russian: ВТО (ru) f (VTO)
• Spanish: OMC (es)
• Uyghur: د س ت (d s t)

Further reading

• http://www.wto.org/

Anagrams

• OTW, TOW, Tow, owt, tow, two, wot

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English WTO.

Proper noun

WTO(ダブリューティーオー) • (Daburyū-Tī-Ō) 

1. synonym of 世界貿易機関 (Sekai Bōeki Kikan, “World Trade Organization”); the WTO