"Defending our national sovereignty over trade policy" and "strictly enforcing U.S. trade laws" are, explicitly, the top two priorities on the agenda. Taken together, those priorities suggest the Trump administration will aggressively execute U.S. trade laws with little regard for whether that execution violates internationally-agreed rules established to prevent and discourage abuse of such laws. The Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) claims the WTO is "threatening America's ability to defend U.S. workers & manufacturers from unfair trade" and that it is "overstepping its mandate and disproportionately targeting U.S. trade remedy laws" (My emphasis). AAM claims the WTO disproportionately targets U.S. trade remedy laws. U.S. sovereignty to administer its own trade remedy laws has been surrendered to a body of bureaucrats in Geneva, is how John Bolton sees it.

Source: Forbes March 09, 2017 15:02 UTC