Wal-Mart official: U.S. policy toward the WTO, trade lacks a 'constituency'

A senior Wal-Mart executive on Monday defended the World Trade Organization and the international trading system, criticizing the U.S. approach to Geneva and lamenting that the Trans-Pacific Partnership is moving on without the U.S. “To kind of have this reversal now, to call into question the WTO, I don’t know whether that makes a lot of sense for business or agriculture and I’m not really sure where the constituency is for these views,” said Sarah Thorn, senior director of government...