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The U.S. was essentially undefeated during the Obama years in cases the U.S. litigated through the WTO according to former USTR Michael Froman.
Under the Obama administration, we brought 26 cases to the WTO, 16 of them against China, and we won every single one of the cases that was brought to a conclusion. Michael Froman USTR 2013-2017.
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(135,846 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,744 posts)Voltaire2
(13,073 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)In March, Dan Ikenson, director of Catos Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, reviewed WTO trade disputes involving the U.S. from 1995 to March of this year (2017). He found that the U.S. prevailed in 91 percent of cases that it brought against other countries.
When the United States has been a complainant (as it has in 114 of 522 WTO disputes over 22 years more than any other WTO member) it has prevailed on 91 percent of adjudicated issues, he wrote.