The Trump Administration’s trade strategy is unorthodox to phrase it in the mildest terms. At no time since the modern international trading system began with the founding of the World Trading Organization (“WTO”) has the US government launched such a multipronged assault on the global trading system.1 The Trump Administration’s approach—as I have argued elsewhere2—is, in my view, quite dangerous for the global trading system and contrary to the United States’ interests. The purpose of this Essay is to provide some constructive analysis on how the Trump Administration, or another succeeding administration, could address the United States’ trade concerns with other nations more productively.
Rachel Brewster