Growth in the volume of world merchandise trade will pick up only slightly over the next two years, rising from 2.8% in 2014 to 3.3% in 2015 and eventually to 4.0% in 2016, WTO economists announced today.
Trade expansion will therefore remain well below the annual average of 5.1% posted since 1990.
This has been excerpted from a 14 April 2015 news release by the World Trade Organization and is available in its entirety at:
https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/pres15_e/pr739_e.htm