Underreported story (more about it tomorrow). The WTO said Trump national security tariffs were illegitimate; the Biden administration (!) told the WTO to stuff it 1/ https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/09/wto-ruling-trump-tariffs-violate-rules-00073282
WTO says Trump's steel tariffs violated global trade rules

The Biden administration strongly condemned the decision, which it said was further proof that the WTO dispute settlement system is in need of fundamental reform.

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@pkrugman These types of stances used to be normal for all administrations, before Gingrich, Atwater, DeLay & other extreme right ideologists infected everything w/ their rank ideological obsessions. Ever since, Republican politicians have reneged principle & rational behavior, opposing the sound defense of US interests if those were being promoted by Democrats. Most of what Trump did was corrupt or idiotic but, like the proverbial broken clock, a few times he did what was needed