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Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
Wed Oct 2, 2019, 04:03 PM Oct 2019

Is Trump telling another lie with his WTO claim we never won any cases until he became Prez?

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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Is Trump telling another lie with his WTO claim we never won any cases until he became Prez? (Original Post) Elwood P Dowd Oct 2019 OP
He's talking - He's lying. spanone Oct 2019 #1
His lips are moving. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2019 #2
The mouth-anus orange cretin's flatulent utterances are always full of shit. Voltaire2 Oct 2019 #3
Even the repuke CATO Institute would say Trump is lying. Elwood P Dowd Oct 2019 #4

Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
4. Even the repuke CATO Institute would say Trump is lying.
Wed Oct 2, 2019, 04:12 PM
Oct 2019

In March, Dan Ikenson, director of Cato’s 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.

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