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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: 4, Interesting) by HiThere on Tuesday July 03 2018, @06:16PM
Why do you assume he doesn't understand that this will damage the country? So many of his actions seem designed to do just that, that my default assumption has become that any action he's in favor of is intended to either financially benefit him personally, or to damage the country. Often he seems to prefer to do both at once.
To me this speaks more of a foreign agent than of someone who is stupid.
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