.WANTS FRESH NOMINATION PROCESS The US has suggested that the process to find a new Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) needs to be reopened, in what would be an unprecedented move. Donald Trump’s trade chief Robert Lighthizer told the BBC on Wednesday that the WTO needs “someone with real experience in trade”. The US opposes former World Bank economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the job. A consensus still hasn’t been reached. The doubling down on the rejection of Ms Okonjo-Iweala, despite widespread support from other countries, escalates one of…
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