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World trade cop needs reform

Editorial The Washington Post

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is “sliding towards uselessness”, says The Washington Post. At its recent meeting, the WTO’s 164 members failed to make progress on “small yet crucial” issues, such as ending subsidies to fisheries that endanger the world’s fish stocks. Unless Washington “recovers its commitment to a rules-based trading system”, the organisation it “painstakingly” helped to build will be an irrelevance when it comes to global challenges such as artificial intelligence and

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