The World Trade Organization's services trade barometer shows a further decline from last September.
WASHINGTON (AN) — World Trade Organization figures showed global services trade growth slowed at the end of 2019 and into 2020 as countries tried to take steps to slow the spread of the global coronavirus outbreak.
The latest reading of 96.8 on WTO's services trade barometer is a further decline from 98.4 recorded last September and below the baseline value of 100, suggesting that a recovery is not yet in sight, WTO said on Wednesday.
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