Filling The US-Shaped Hole In World Trade – Analysis
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The world trade system has been challenged by tariff increases introduced by former US president Donald Trump and maintained by President Joe Biden. Both presidents have also undermined the effectiveness of the World Trade Organization (WTO) by neutering the dispute settlement mechanism and withdrawing from efforts to improve and extend world trade law. One of Trump’s first actions in January 2017 was to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The Trump administration also refused to approve new members of the WTO Appellate Body. After the United States failed to ratify the TPP, the 11 other signatories proceeded with the slightly revised Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which came into effect in 2018. As an alternative appeal process, in 2020 47 WTO members created the Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA), whose signatories recognize binding arbitration on disputed decisions of the WTO’s dispute settlement body. World trade has flourished in 2022 and 2023 as economies recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic. If a new institutional order for global trade based on an expanded CPTPP emerges, and if RCEP members and the European Union commit to compatibility, then the global economy will continue to function, but with different levels of commitment to trade rules. The actions of other trading nations matter. The larger the group of important trading nations accepting CPTPP rules, the greater the incentive for the United States to re-join the process of trade lawmaking.
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https://www.eurasiareview.com/27062024-filling-the-us-shaped-hole-in-world-trade-analysis/
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