Posted on 12/10/2019 2:27:56 AM PST by cotton1706
The supreme court of world trade, otherwise known as the “appellate body” of the World Trade Organization, will cease functioning on Wednesday. The court is supposed to have seven members but it currently has four vacancies, with two more members retiring on Tuesday. That leaves one active judge, two short of the number required to rule on international trade disputes.
Those vacancies haven’t been filled thanks to the Trump administration’s war on the WTO. The president has criticized the WTO for allowing China to retain its special status as a developing nation (though it's now number two in the world economically) while looking the other way when it violates WTO rules. Instead of sanctioning China for subsidizing many of its products to gain a special advantage over its global competitors, the supreme court has instead ruled against Trump’s tariffs, which were enacted in part to deal with such subsidies. Accordingly, the Trump administration has refused to allow those vacancies to be filled.
Not only do WTO rulings against Trump's tariffs violate the U.S. Constitution, they also threaten to limit Trump’s ability to manage foreign trade, which the Constitution allows. As Joe Zammit-Lucia of the globalist Radix think-tank expressed it, “President Trump has made it clear throughout his term that he has no time for multilateral deals and even less time for WTO judges telling him what he can and cannot do.”
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Not tired of winning.
“ Their cozy little world is being torn asunder! ”
Now, cut of the WPO’s money.
But...but...Orange Man bad. /liberal impression
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
A lovely little FU to send these @holes off to irrelevancy.
Next up on the block... (drum roll) United Nations!
Does this mean US consumers will now be able to know where in heck our beef and pork come from?
Ha....that's an impeachable offence...2 counts
Count 1...Making Deplorables happy
Count 2...Making the WTO judge very unhappy.
I recall, years ago, the WTO protests in Seattle - by folks similar to the Antifa crowd. I wonder if they will now be voting for President Trump? (I doubt it.)
L8r
#orangemanbadass!
I hope not. We need to keep the UN in NYC so we can babysit them. President Trump just needs to cut their allowance way back.
The UN moving to Tehran doesn’t make me warm and fuzzy.
*Anything* that is good for America is a high crime *and* misdemeanor.
*Anything* bad for Europe is a high crime *and* misdemeanor.
In the libtatrd reptilian *brain*, both are hanging offenses.
Right-The UN... That giant TURD in NY
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