Trump to order study on abuses of US trade deals

PRESIDENT DONALD Trump will sign an executive order Saturday seeking to identify any problems caused by the nation’s existing trade agreements, including an examination of US involvement in the World Trade Organization, a top trade official said.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said his department would work to issue a report in 180 days outlining challenges with these tradedealsandpossiblesolutions. Ross singled out the World Trade Organization as an entity that may need to make some changes.

“There’s always the potential foramendingorganization’scharters like the WTO, particularly when you’re in the position we are,” he said. “We’re the number oneimporterinthewholeworld.”

Ross raised concerns that the WTO is too bureaucratic and does not hold meetings often enough. He also argued that the WTO has an “institutional bias” in favour of exporters and against countries that are being “beleaguered by inappropriate imports.” REUTERS A HACKER claims to have stolen the upcoming season of Netflix’s hit series Orange Is The New Black, and is demanding that the video streaming service pay an unspecified ransom to prevent all the new episodes from being prematurely released online.

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