Mullaney: Engage emerging economies on trade, keep them from ‘spoiler role’

If the U.S. and European Union don’t deepen engagement with emerging economies on initiatives to address global trade issues, they run the risk of provoking challenges in international fora that could undermine proposed policy solutions, a former senior U.S. trade official said this week. Daniel Mullaney, former assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Europe and the Middle East, on Thursday outlined what the U.S. and EU see as their global trade “objectives”, which, he says, include addressing “predatory investment practices, non-market...