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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, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday July 03 2018, @03:51PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday July 03 2018, @03:51PM (#701966) Journal

    For 99% of issues you can find quotes of Trump directly contradicting himself and taking both sides of the issue.

    On this one issue, to be fair, that is not the case.

    And on this one issue, we're not confused by Trump at all. We're confused by Republicans.

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