Trump announces new push for WTO reform

Bloomberg

President Donald Trump said he’s begun talks with World Trade Organisation (WTO) director-general Roberto Azevedo on changing the structure of the body, which he complained has been unfair to the US.
Azevedo will travel to the US for negotiations, Trump said on Wednesday at a news conference to close his visit to the World Economic Forum annual conference in Davos, Switzerland.
“We’re talking about a whole new structure for the deal or we’ll have to do something, but the World Trade Organisation has been very unfair to the United States for many, many years,” Trump said. He and Azevedo are discussing something “very dramatic,” he said.
Azevedo joined him for the news conference. The WTO “has to be updated. It has to be changed. It has to be reformed. This is an agenda that is squarely before members,” he said. “I don’t think anybody in Geneva misses the point.”