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'FART' Bill Indicates Trump's Intention to Dump WTO

posted by martyb on Tuesday July 03 2018, @06:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the He-Who-Smelt-It dept.

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The Trump administration has crafted a draft bill — ordered by the president — that would declare America's abandonment of World Trade Organization rules, according to Axios. The bill essentially provides President Donald Trump — who has argued for a better position for the U.S. in big trade pacts — a license to raise U.S. tariffs at will, without congressional consent and largely outside of the international rules governed by the WTO. The bill, titled the "United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act," would give Trump unilateral power to ignore the two most basic principles of the WTO and negotiate one-on-one with any country.

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @10:33AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @10:33AM (#701832)

    How is this unpredictable? Here he is saying he would do it before being elected:

    “Then we’re going to renegotiate or we’re going to pull out,” he said. “These trade deals are a disaster, Chuck. The World Trade Organization is a disaster.”

    http://fortune.com/2016/07/25/donald-trump-free-trade-wto/ [fortune.com]

    Trump seems very predictable for to me, he actually trys to do what he says he wants to do. It seems more likely that some people find him unpredictable because they have a totally inaccurate mental model of him. Perhaps they get their info from "fake news", or are intolerant so they live in an echo chamber, etc.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by meustrus on Tuesday July 03 2018, @03:46PM

    by meustrus (4961) on Tuesday July 03 2018, @03:46PM (#701964)

    It seems more likely that some people find him unpredictable because they have a totally inaccurate mental model of him.

    That's no accident. Trump is an expert at getting people to think he is fighting for their interests. It's about the only thing he's really good at, and it is the foundation of his negotiation skills. This naturally leads people to "have a totally inaccurate mental model of him", because Trump himself convinced those people to insert their own motivations into it.

    Honestly, it reminds me of the Kims of North Korea. Always making promises, always getting their opponents to back down by making symbolic concessions, always going back to what they really want to do as soon as those opponents decide they're getting through.

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