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Trump considers pulling the US out of WTO
Deutsche Welle ^ | 08.30.2018 | es/rc (dpa, Reuters)

Posted on 08/30/2018 7:20:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai

US President Donald Trump said in an interview on Thursday that he was thinking about pulling the United States out of the World Trade Organization if “they don’t shape up.”

Speaking with Bloomberg News, Trump said that the WTO had treated the US “very badly.”

The president has often complained that the United States is treated unfairly in global trade, and has blamed the WTO for allowing that to happen. This coincides with several nations threatening to take legal action against the US through the WTO over the White House’s trade wars.

The US and Russia have also launched competing WTO complaints against one another for raising duties on goods like aluminum and steel. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalagenda; globalism; trump; wto

1 posted on 08/30/2018 7:20:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Do it! Do it! Just do it!


2 posted on 08/30/2018 7:22:06 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Olog-hai

We should get out of IMF and World Bank.


3 posted on 08/30/2018 7:26:21 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: TBP

And NATO too


4 posted on 08/30/2018 7:26:58 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: Olog-hai

Global lib heads a poppin’ just at the thought.


5 posted on 08/30/2018 7:28:34 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: All

Please, Mr. President, do it.


6 posted on 08/30/2018 7:29:45 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Olog-hai

Dismantling the New World Order, Winnng!!!!


7 posted on 08/30/2018 7:29:59 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Olog-hai

Yaaaay

WTO meetings are a chance for anarchists and communists to protest and do damage


8 posted on 08/30/2018 7:31:53 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: captain_dave

And NAFTA too. What what!


9 posted on 08/30/2018 7:33:47 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free)
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To: Olog-hai

There seems to be a little less of a sucking sound around here.


10 posted on 08/30/2018 7:35:08 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free)
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To: All

Audit the Fed while we’re at it?


11 posted on 08/30/2018 7:39:34 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

and back to the gold standard

aaaand, That’s a wrap people


12 posted on 08/30/2018 8:07:55 PM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: Olog-hai

It appears that Trump is getting better as he goes forward. That WTO has always been a swindle.


13 posted on 08/30/2018 8:23:09 PM PDT by odawg
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To: JonPreston
Audit the Fed while we’re at it?

Amazing how that always gets shuffled to the bottom of the deck, isn't it?

14 posted on 08/30/2018 8:25:37 PM PDT by JohnG45
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To: captain_dave

boy..did he open my eyes about NATO..what a scam..


15 posted on 08/30/2018 9:01:35 PM PDT by basalt
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To: basalt

NATO has long outlived whatever usefulness it had.


16 posted on 08/31/2018 5:34:24 AM PDT by wally_bert (Terrific! Terrific? Harve Nyquist never ordered any radials.)
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