Reform or die? If the US gets its way, the WTO might do both

Trade diplomats in Geneva question whether the WTO can survive the operation that Joe Biden’s administration has in mind | Christian Bruna/EPA-EFE GENEVA — The United States put the World Trade Organization into intensive care by single-handedly killing off its highest court four years ago — in so doing endangering the global rules-based trading system.

Now Washington is — ever so quietly — floating the idea of a new-look appeals process that could help get the WTO off life support. And that is leading some trade diplomats in Geneva to question whether the patient would survive the operation that Joe […]

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