LONDON — Donald Trump wants World Trade Organization chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to play by his rules. She’s defying his wishes.
A week before Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” tariff announcement, the United States began circulating a communication among World Trade Organization members.
Obtained by POLITICO, the note accuses the WTO’s Secretariat — the staff body tasked with keeping the organization running — of overstepping its bounds and attempting to “reinvent itself into a resource to be provided to the public.”
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But speaking at the London School of Economics this week, the WTO director-general made it clear she has no plans to retreat from the global stage.
