Posted on 12/09/2019 6:06:02 PM PST by cotton1706
GENEVA—In an ornate stone palace on the shores of Lake Geneva, just a stone’s throw from the Quai Wilson and the Palais des Nations, the Trump administration is waging its latest battle against the international order that the United States helped to build.
At issue is the fate of a little-known part of a little-understood institution: the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. As soon as Wednesday, if U.S. President Donald Trump continues his administration’s yearslong campaign of obstruction, the WTO’s ability to resolve trade disputes between countries—pretty much its most important function—will likely be paralyzed. That means that the go-it-alone unilateralism that has characterized the Trump administration’s approach to trade could soon spread far and wide, essentially turning back the clock to a time when trade rivalries between nations were settled not with legal arguments but with tariff walls, trade barriers, and beggar-thy-neighbor protectionism.
“When you listen to the rhetoric from the Trump administration, they argue that the United States is better off in a power-based, law of the jungle system,” said Jennifer Hillman, the senior fellow for trade at the Council on Foreign Relations. “I think the last three years have shown how wrong that is.”
The specific battle between the United States and the other members of the WTO centers on the seven judges of the Appellate Body, who ultimately decide appeals on trade complaints between nations. At least three judges are needed to hear an appeal. But with the Trump administration systematically blocking the naming of any new judges since it took office, no new justices have replaced those whose terms expired. On Wednesday, barring an unlikely eleventh-hour breakthrough, two of the last three judges will leave, and the Appellate Body will be down to one.
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This is a win.
Another aspect of the New World Order crumbles.
I hope GHW Bush is spinning in his grave.
Should collect against Airbus first?
Winning.
Impeachable offense #24.
dream on......
[“When you listen to the rhetoric from the Trump administration, they argue that the United States is better off in a power-based, law of the jungle system,” said Jennifer Hillman, the senior fellow for trade at the Council on Foreign Relations. “I think the last three years have shown how wrong that is.” ]
LOL!
FP still doesn’t like Trump. LMAO.
Letting China in killed the WTO.
What a bunch of liars.
25 years ago, Chuck Harder, Stan Major, Jerry Hughes and other talk show greats warned against the WTO. Pat Buchanan was the only political voice against it. Perot was ambivalent. The radio hosts pounded it day after day, telling us we would regret the passage of GATT.
It was a uniparty monster, endorsed by Clinton and the Republican leadership. while Congress allowed union related Democrats like Gephardt to be against it.
One of my best votes was for Buchanan in the primary.
Yeah!!!
Thank you Best President Ever!
Boo-hoo. Over-paid international bureaucrats will have to get a real job if our fabulous President pulls the plug on yet another worthless agency that has out-lived it’s failed mandate.
Donald Trump is a Change Agent.
Hope and Change, Baby.
this is a TOTAL win:
Sigh. This doesn’t have that much to do with Trump. The Obama administration boycotted approving judges too. Which started with Bush Jr.
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