WTO Chief Sees Urgent Need to Harden Supply Lines as World Frays

WTO Chief Sees Urgent Need to Harden Supply Lines as World Frays World trade is facing its sternest test in eight decades and must reimagine supply lines to guarantee resilience in the face of an increasingly fragmented globe, according to the head of the World Trade Organization. “This is an unprecedented time for global trade,” Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said in an interview on Bloomberg Television with Francine Lacqua. “We are seeing disruptions to trade, emerging fragmentation, in a way we’ve not seen since really eighty years.”