As the WTO flounders, the world’s middle powers go their own way
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YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon — A last-ditch attempt to overhaul the stricken World Trade Organization failed at its ministerial conference in Cameroon, pushing a coalition of the willing to strike out on its own to save rules-based trade. Talks to reform the global trade body collapsed on Sunday night over a standoff between Washington and Brazil — leading the work to be pushed back to the WTO’s General Council in Geneva this May. A long-standing tariff ban on digital imports was also allowed to lapse,
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