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The speech is part of a campaign from the Biden administration to convince a skeptical world that the U.S. wants to revive the moribund WTO. One of the international organization’s most critical functions, adjudicating trade disputes, has been incapacitated since Trump blocked new judges to its highest dispute settlement panel in 2019. As part of that push, President Biden called on world nations this week at the UN General Assembly to reform the WTO as well. “We’re going to continue our efforts to reform the World Trade Organization and preserve competition, openness, transparency, and the rule of law while, at...
