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Does the WTO have a future?

The rules-based international trading system is being challenged like never before

With current World Trade Organization Director-General Roberto AzevĂŞdo due to leave his post later in the year, the race is on for a new DG. Abdel Hamid Mamdouh, a former diplomat and candidate for the top job, tells Manuela Saragosa how he imagines the WTO of the future, while the ±«Óătv’s Andrew Walker explains how US opposition under President Trump to a global multilateral trading system is putting the organisation’s future in doubt.

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