TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WTO: “Countries belonging to the World Trade Organization should unite against the bullying of U.S. President Donald Trump, former WTO chief judge James Bacchus said on Wednesday [10-3-18]. He said Trump was stampeding countries into accepting constraints on their own exports, even though they knew it was illegal to do so, and intimidating judges at the WTO who had ruled against the United States…Trump has blocked the appointment of judges at the WTO, which has now four vacant seats on its seven-seat Appellate Body, effectively the supreme court of world trade, leaving the bare minimum of three judges to rule on international disputes.”
–Reuters Staff, “Isolate Trump at WTO, says former top trade judge Bacchus,” Reuters, October 3, 2018 10:08 am