multilateral trading system

基本解释

While the failure does not mean disaster for world trade, there is a risk that it could undermine faith in the rule-based multilateral trading system.
尽管这次失败对于世界贸易并不意味着灾难，但仍存在风险会破坏对基于规则的多边贸易体系的信心。
Failure would cast a shadow over the multilateral trading system and further embolden protectionists, at a time when the world needs cooperation rather than conflict.
谈判失败将会对多边贸易体系投下阴影，使保护主义更加猖獗，而此时此刻世界需要的是合作而不是冲突。
Turkey said that the textiles study it proposed should not be a threat to the multilateral trading system, nor should it have adverse effects on any WTO member.
土耳其认为其提出的对纺织品开展研究的提议不会对多边贸易体制构成威胁，也不会给任何WTO成员带来不利的影响。
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The history of the multilateral trading system is littered with rows, hiatuses, disillusion, despair—and sudden success.
ECONOMIST: Trade agreements
The multilateral trading system recognises that governments have legitimate aims other than free trade.
ECONOMIST: At daggers drawn
Competition policy was already on the trade agenda in 1948, when the multilateral trading system was set up.
ECONOMIST: The borders of competition