WTO on ‘Thin Ice’ With Metals-Tariff Ruling, US Trade Chief Says
- ‘Challenging’ for WTO officials to second-guess processes: Tai
- Governments have national-security responsibility, she says
US Trade Representative Katherine Tai
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The World Trade Organization “is getting itself on very, very thin ice” by ruling that the US violated trade rules with Trump-era steel and aluminum tariffs, Trade Representative Katherine Tai said, adding that the finding “challenges the integrity of the system.”
The WTO ruling, issued earlier this month, “really challenges the integrity of the system,” Tai said Monday. That’s because it “gets deep into creating requirements and parameters for what is or is not a legitimate national-security decision.”