President Donald Trump has vowed to reshape the global trading system, saying the U.S. would prioritize its trade laws over the World Trade Organization’s rules. America plans to defend its “national sovereignty over trade policy,” the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative wrote in an annual document in March. Trump’s newly confirmed trade chief, Robert Lighthizer, has said that a “slavish dedication” to WTO rules“makes very little sense.” All this could move the WTO to center stage as Trump disavows one trade agreement after another and the threat of a global trade war looms.
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