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Jeff Merkley: “I think of the whole WTO process as clunky... and deeply dysfunctional.”

On the recordNovember 26, 2018
I think of the whole WTO process as clunky... and deeply dysfunctional.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley criticizes the WTO process as ineffective and problematic.

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