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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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'FART' Bill Indicates Trump's Intention to Dump WTO
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(Score: 3, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday July 03 2018, @04:02PM
The bill is USFARTA. You can argue to pronounce it as US-FART-A, but claiming it's FART is simply more Trump bashing.
Yes, it's a secret anti-Trump plot to use our Democrat (solar-powered) time machine do go back in time and secretly change the name of the USAPARTIOTA to the USA PATRIOT Act.