WTO's power over laws
mardi 10 décembre 2019 à 01:00The US may block the WTO's power to eliminate national laws, including laws to protect the environment and public health.
Never mind the article's alarm over this; it implicitly adopts the values of business-over-democracy and growth-with-trickle-down. Weakening the WTO would be a signal victory over business-dominated globalization.
Here are two examples of how the WTO compelled the US to eliminate laws that served good purposes.