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Director General of the WTO- Roberto Azevêdo

Director General of the WTO- Roberto Azevêdo

The Interview vor 8 Jahren

What can the WTO do to avoid a global trade war?

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Stephen Sackur is in Geneva to talk to the head of the World
Trade Organisation Roberto Azevêdo. The WTO is supposed to
oversee free and fair global trade but right now, the
organisation risks looking impotent and even irrelevant.
President Donald Trump is making good on his promises on tariffs
and protectionism and the Chinese are threatening to respond in
kind. What can the WTO do to avoid a global trade war?

(Photo: Roberto Azevedo at the second day of the summit of G7
nations 2015. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)