{"id":375744,"date":"2018-09-01T22:16:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T21:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-threatens-wto-exit-dissident-voice\/"},"modified":"2018-09-01T22:16:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T21:16:51","slug":"trump-threatens-wto-exit-dissident-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-threatens-wto-exit-dissident-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Threatens WTO Exit | Dissident Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Transcript: PressTV Skype Interview with Peter Koenig<br \/>31 August 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U-S President, Donald Trump, has threatened to withdraw from the World Trade Organization.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, in an interview with <em>Bloomberg News<\/em>, said he will pull out from the organization if it \u201cdoes not shape up\u201d. The U-S president warned that he could even take action against the WTO. Trump has complained that the US is being treated unfairly in global trade and has blamed the World Trade Organization for allowing it to happen. Regarding tariffs, Trump said he will enact import duties on 200-billion dollars-worth of Chinese goods as early as next week. Following his remarks, Asian stock markets dropped and partially erased gains made in this week\u2019s global rally. Trump has ignited a global trade war by slapping sharp tariffs on goods from the EU, Canada, Mexico, and China.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PressTV: <\/strong>What is your take on this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Koenig: <\/strong>Well, it looks like this latest threat to exit WTO goes into the same direction as his trade war with the EU and with China, and also with the new NAFTA Agreement \u2013 which so far was negotiated only with Mexico and does not include Canada; it eventually would have another name.<\/p>\n<p>The new trade agreement with Mexico was negotiated like all trade agreements with the US, behind closed doors. Canada was invited to also join, but as far as I know, no decision has been taken yet. At the outset it looks like the new \u201cdraft\u201d agreement with Mexico is worse than the original&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/08\/trump-threatens-wto-exit\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcript: PressTV Skype Interview with Peter Koenig31 August 2018 Introduction U-S President, Donald Trump, has threatened to withdraw from the World Trade Organization. Trump, in an interview with Bloomberg News, said he will pull out from the organization if it \u201cdoes not shape up\u201d. The U-S president warned that he could even take action against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}