WTO director-general to visit Washington next week in lead-up to MC12

World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will be in Washington, DC, next week to meet with U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and U.S. lawmakers ahead of a consequential ministerial meeting scheduled for mid-June. The director-general's visit comes as the Biden administration has been defending its worker-centered trade policy and co-leading, with the European Union, an effort to economically isolate Russia as a consequence of its invasion of Ukraine, leading to international political tensions that have not escaped the WTO. Republican...