U.S., others spar at General Council over development and future of WTO
India, China and others this week took umbrage at the United States’ push to keep “relatively advanced, wealthy, and influential” members of the World Trade Organization from enjoying special and differential treatment, arguing at a General Council meeting that the U.S. stance threatened the WTO's foundations. “Any unilateral attack on [special and differential treatment] is an onslaught on the very tenets of multilateralism that WTO seeks to protect,” India said at the meeting, held on Tuesday and Wednesday. “This will...