WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump put pressure on the World Trade Organization on Friday to change how it designates developing countries, singling out China for unfairly getting preferential tre
atment.
"The WTO is BROKEN when the world's RICHEST countries claim to be developing countries to avoid WTO rules and get special treatment. NO more!!!" Trump wrote in a tweet on Friday. US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, who has long viewed WTO rules as unable to rein in China's trade practices, said he looked forward to implementing it.
If the Trump administration moves forward with steps outlined in the memo to stop treating certain countries as developing economies, it would likely be another move toward essentially ignoring some WTO rules.
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