Its shortcomings do not mean it should be ignored or unwound.

Delegates attend the World Trade Organisation 14th ministerial meeting in Yaounde, Cameroon, on March 28.

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer could not have been clearer regarding his views on the World Trade Organization (WTO). Having just returned from a critical four-day meeting of the world’s trade ministers in Cameroon, he did not mince words in a recent op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, calling the WTO “ineffective and dysfunctional” and on a path to irrelevance.