US complains to World Trade Organisation over trade-tariff retaliation
Trump clearly doesn’t like the taste of his own medicine as he retaliates against the retaliators in an increasingly ugly war with major trading partners
The US has launched challenges at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to hit back at the major trading partners who have retaliated against President Donald Trump’s tariffs on metals and goods from China. Washington opened separate disputes against China, the EU, Canada, Mexico and Turkey, challenging the counter-tariffs they have since imposed on American farm exports and machinery, the office of the US Trade Representative said in a statement. Despite outrage from EU, Canadian and Mexican authorities, the White House says alleged unfair trade by these economies justifies Trump’s stinging tariffs — but retaliation is not. "The actions taken by the president are wholly legitimate and fully justified as a matter of US law and international trade rules," US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said in a statement. "Instead of working with us to address a common problem, some of our trading partners have elected to respond with retaliatory tariffs designed to punish American workers, ...
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