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Withdrawal from WTO is needed to break up large banks- Public Citizen (Original Post) Baobab Apr 2016 OP
Bipartisan support for this (at least the WTO withdrawal part) from Trump and Texas GOP pampango Apr 2016 #1
Tells me all I need to know. nt msanthrope Apr 2016 #2
What is making our health care so horridly impossible to change? Baobab Apr 2016 #3

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1. Bipartisan support for this (at least the WTO withdrawal part) from Trump and Texas GOP
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 01:15 PM
Apr 2016

party platform.

Trump’s Proposed Great Chinese Tariff Wall

Trump’s tariff wall is undoubtedly illegal under the WTO rules.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-alford/trumps-proposed-great-chinese-tariff-wall_b_9358376.html

For Trump to impose the unilateral tariffs on China that he has proposed, he would have to take the US out of the WTO.

Texas GOP 2012 Platform:


We oppose foreign aid except in cases of national defense or catastrophic disasters, with congressional approval.

We support US withdrawal from the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the a World Bank.

We support the withdrawal of the United States from the United Nations and the removal of U.N. headquarters from United States soil.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/texasgop_pre/assets/original/2012Platform_Final.pdf
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