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

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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Original Submission

• Canada won't have us (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @04:48PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @04:48PM (#702008)

  Oh get off your moral high horse. You can just immigrate to Canada very easily, the USA will not stop you from leaving.

  No, but Canada probably won't let him/her in. They've made it much harder for Americans to immigrate, and given how many of us have turned out to be bottom-feeding scum (just look at our president), who can blame them?

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