Exporting Gridlock, Importing Dysfunction

Dysfunction in the World Trade Organization threatens to stall critically important momentum to expand and facilitate global trade. By Jerry Cook

   As the United States continues to pursue its most ambitious international trade agenda in years, some of our legislators and trading partners are picking up bad habits from each other. As partisan gridlock grips Capitol Hill, stymieing progress on key legislation to improve our customs and trade architecture, dysfunction in the World Trade Organization threatens to stall critically important momentum to expand and facilitate global trade.