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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration will push for a broad reset of “outdated tariff determinations” at the World Trade Organization to fix what it sees as years of unfair treatment of the United States, a top trade official told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday.
...Lighthizer said the search for a new WTO leader could jumpstart reforms, but Washington would veto any candidate who had a “whiff of anti-Americanism” in their past. The current director general, Robert Azevedo, will leave his post a year early at the end of August.
The Trump administration has complained for years about the WTO’s failure to hold China accountable for unfair trade practices, and insists that China - the world’s second-largest economy - should no longer be treated as a developing country....
...Lighthizer said the search for a new WTO leader could jumpstart reforms, but Washington would veto any candidate who had a “whiff of anti-Americanism” in their past. The current director general, Robert Azevedo, will leave his post a year early at the end of August.
The Trump administration has complained for years about the WTO’s failure to hold China accountable for unfair trade practices, and insists that China - the world’s second-largest economy - should no longer be treated as a developing country....