The World Trade Organization was designed to incentivize countries trade to move smoothly and freely with one another. With the new presidency, one of the biggest supporting countries of WTO has now become one of the biggest critics. This could be a problem for many reasons the U.S. has been trying to strengthen the WTO for years now in order to increase trade. However one of the biggest complaints about WTO is lack of enforcement of countries regulations. Which is what the current presidency is complaining about and is now retracting themselves from these regulations.
The U.S being one of the biggest economies in the world makes them have a lot of influence in what other countries will be doing. So when the U.S wants to impose tariffs on other countries which is what the WTO opposes other countries would soon follow to do the same. What does that mean for the WTO? Well, one could hypothesize that once the U.S. leaves other nations will follow leaving WTO useless. Certain trade with countries would diminish. This may incentivize consumers to buy domestically which could be good, however, welfare could diminish as the market becomes less competitive and one could see prices inflate.
References:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/10/business/wto-united-states-trade.html
https://www.wto.org/
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