Froman: Biden USTR must ‘rebuild consensus’ on WTO’s future

Former U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman says President-elect Biden should focus on collaborating with other countries to make the World Trade Organization “functional” again. “Instead of focusing so much on the institution or on multilateralism itself, we should be investing the energy in rebuilding a consensus -- a political consensus -- among the major trading countries as to what the trading system is for, what the rules should be. And that goes back to working with allies and partners,” Froman...