On Tuesday 22 May, European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said that the European Union was working flat out to preserve the multilateral trading system in the face of protectionism and unilateralism, and that it is pushing the USA and China to discuss a potential reform of the WTO rules.
"We are concerned about the multilateral trading system and its future, the problem of making decisions in the WTO and the coming crisis of the appellate body if the USA does not unblock the...