What the death of WTO's 'Supreme Court for global trade' means for the UK and beyond
Sam Lowe, a trade expert at the Centre for European Reform, adds: “The US is no longer the benevolent hegemon of the rules-based system – it's now actively trying to disrupt it and return to a period when all that mattered was size.”
...Lowe adds: “The UK is choosing a particularly difficult time to extricate itself from its regional trading bloc and try to seek out its own path in this global trading system, which is fraying at the edges.”