USTR Greer Blasts WTO as "Not Serious Forum" After Cameroon Conference

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer delivered a scathing critique of the World Trade Organization following last month's ministerial conference in Cameroon, signaling continued US frustration with multilateral trade frameworks governing global seafood commerce.

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Monday, Greer described the WTO's 14th Ministerial Conference in Yaoundé as a poorly attended gathering where "WTO staff bopped to the beat" of self-congratulatory presentations about an incomplete fisheries subsidies agreement while only "a couple dozen cabinet-level trade ministers" bothered to attend...