Portman: Appellate Body nominations block needed to achieve WTO reform

The Trump administration’s refusal to allow new judges to join the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body is needed to force essential reforms in Geneva, Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) told Inside U.S. Trade this week. “The most fundamental reform is that the consensus approach, which is a foundation of the WTO, has proven to be unworkable, so they’ve lost a lot of authority,” Portman, a member of the Senate Finance Committee and a former U.S. Trade Representative, said in an...