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Does the WTO have a future?

The rules-based international trading system is being challenged like never before

With current World Trade Organization Director-General Roberto Azev锚do due to leave his post later in the year, the race is on for a new DG. Abdel Hamid Mamdouh, a former diplomat and candidate for the top job, tells Manuela Saragosa how he imagines the WTO of the future, while the 主播大秀鈥檚 Andrew Walker explains how US opposition under President Trump to a global multilateral trading system is putting the organisation鈥檚 future in doubt.

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