{
  "id": 11868599,
  "title": "Global trade is shifting from globalisation to fragmentation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/04/global-trade-is-shifting-from-globalisation-to-fragmentation",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-04T06:30:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Peninsula Qatar Business",
    "slug": "the-peninsula-qatar-business",
    "url": "https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/04/10/2026/global-trade-is-shifting-from-globalisation-to-fragmentation"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Doha, Qatar -- The global economy experienced three distinct phases of trade development over the past two decades. In the early 2000s, international commerce underwent rapid expansion, driven by China's entry into the World Trade Organization, the growth of global value chains, and reduced trade costs. However, the 2008 global financial crisis led to a slowdown in trade growth, with the ratio of trade growth to overall economic growth shrinking from two-to-one to one-to-one. In recent years, a wave of trade restrictions and protectionist measures has reshaped global commerce, with the number of new trade-restrictive policies nearly doubling from the 2010s to the 2020s, and the value of affected imports more than quadrupling in the past year. This shift in global trade dynamics has significant implications for the future of global growth, prices, and the development prospects of emerging economies.",
  "summary": "<p>Doha, Qatar: Global trade was the driving economic force of the early twenty-first century. Between 2000 and 2024 world trade in goods and services nearly quadrupled, and the ratio of trade to global output climbed to a peak of around 60% in 2008, QNB said in its economic commentary.</p> <p>The global financial crisis was the culmination of an era often described as hyper-globalisation. Since…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Gulf Times Business",
        "title": "Global Trade shifts from globalization toward fragmentation : QNB",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/03/global-trade-shifts-from-globalization-toward-fragmentation-qnb",
        "published": "2026-10-03T05:56:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Qatar Tribune Business",
        "title": "Global trade is shifting from globalisation to fragmentation",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/03/global-trade-is-shifting-from-globalisation-to-fragmentation",
        "published": "2026-10-03T21:29:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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