World Trade Organization
International body governing trade rules, negotiations and disputes among 166 member economies.
The World Trade Organization lists 166 members in October 2026. It administers trade agreements, hosts negotiations and handles disputes between governments, including Ukraine’s agricultural-import complaint against Hungary.
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The World Trade Organization provides a framework for trade agreements, negotiations and disputes between its members. Its work concerns the rules governments apply to commerce across borders. Members include economies that are not sovereign states, so describing the organisation simply as a count of countries can be misleading. WTO overview
Its dispute records distinguish a government’s complaint from a ruling on that complaint. Ukraine’s request for consultations over Hungarian restrictions on agricultural imports is recorded as DS620, beginning on 18 September 2023. That record identifies the parties and subject of the dispute; the request itself does not settle the legality of the restrictions. DS620 record
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