Trump's China tariff plan would be the death of the WTO

Republican presidential candidate would turn 'MFN' principle on its head

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U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump's planned tariffs on Chinese imports would stretch the spirit, if not the letter, of World Trade Organization rules. © Reuters

Stephen Olson is senior adjunct fellow with the Pacific Forum, a foreign policy research institute based in Honolulu, Hawaii, and a visiting lecturer and nonresident fellow with the Clayton Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Donald Trump has indicated his intention to impose a 60% tariff on all imports from China and a 10% "universal baseline" tariff on imports from elsewhere should he recapture the U.S. presidency when Americans go to the polls in November.

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