Former French trade official: NAFTA failure could lead to U.S. withdrawal from WTO

Former French trade negotiator Jean-Francois Boittin said Tuesday that if talks on a new North American Free Trade Agreement fail and the deal ends, it could presage a U.S. withdrawal from the World Trade Organization. “We should all be ready for what I will call the perfect storm, which is this country getting out of the WTO,” Boittin, who led the French negotiating team at the Uruguay Round, said at an event hosted by American University's Washington College of Law...