New global trade regression in 2012, according to WTO. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) expects growth in world trade in 2012 to be below the +3.7% on which it was still counting in mid-April. Pascal Lamy, the director general of the WTO, said that the world economy is slowing down, as we all know, and that consequently world trade is also slowing down. World trade saw growth of 5% in 2011 and average world growth of 5.4% over the last 20 years. The WTO now counts on an increase of 2.5%...