USA: Var ett misstag att släppa in Kina i WTO

China became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on 11 December 2001. The admission of China to the WTO was preceded by a lengthy process of negotiations and required significant changes to the Chinese economy. It signified China's deeper integration into the world economy.

Robert Emmet Lighthizer (born October 11, 1947) is an American attorney and government official who is the current United States Trade Representative. After he graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1973, Robert Lighthizer joined the firm of Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C. He left the firm in 1978 to serve as chief minority counsel and later staff director and chief of staff of the Senate Committee on Finance under Chairman Bob Dole. In 1983, Robert Lighthizer was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative for President Ronald Reagan. In 1985, Lighthizer joined the Washington office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP as a partner and led the firm's international trade group. On January 3, 2017, President-elect Donald J. Trump announced that he intended to nominate Lighthizer as his U.S. Trade Representative. Lighthizer was confirmed by the Senate on May 11, 2017, by a vote of 82-14.

WTO omdirigerar hit. För andra betydelser se WTO (olika betydelser). Världshandelsorganisationen (förkortas WTO från engelskans World Trade Organization) är en internationell organisation skapad med syfte att övervaka och liberalisera internationell handel. Organisationen är en produkt av Uruguayrundan och upprättades officiellt den 1 januari 1995, genom Marrakechavtalet, och övertog och inkluderade då General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade-avtalet (GATT) från 1947.