exactly is the role of the organization and how do they affect trade across nations lori wallach of public citizens global trade watch joins the show to bring us up to speed on the moves of the mysterious giant we have this and so much more to do so let's dive right in. there are effectively 13 days left for china and the u.s. to nail down the details of a phase one deal in order to avoid yet another escalation in the trade war that has already cost consumers and companies millions of dollars in lost productivity u.s. president donald trump has threatened another wave of terrorist by december 15th that will hit for the 1st time the supply chain of the consumer goods if a resolution is not met while merely a few weeks ago we had messaging of a phase one being close to done but now the optimism seems to be premature the u.s. in true trump fashion of exerting maximum pressure and utilizing leverage to try to get what he wants has now played the hong kong card and signed off on the legislation rather than folding this move backfired infuriating beijing and is now stalling further trade talks c

recent years brought the organization to a near collapse now joining us now to discuss this is lori wallach director of global trade watch with public citizen thank you so much laurie for joining us today now can you talk to us about the significance of those 999 protests and where we are today with the w t o. its significance was that for the 1st time it was clear that people in the united states joined with people from around the world in saying no to the particular really corporate led model of globalization that the w. cio was implementing and all of the world's biggest corporations had supported a plan to expand the chos power and remits to meddle with even more aspects of our lives every day country is required to conform all of its domestic laws regulations and administrative procedures with the rules of the agreements and most it has nothing to do with trade so it has to do with things like whether medicines affordable and how long patent terms are or whether you can regulate big banks or energy or whether for instance you can provide national health care or whether food is safe or

just what exactly is the role of the organization and how do they affect trade across nations lori wallach of public citizens global trade watch joins the show to bring us up to speed on the moves of the mysterious giant we have this and so much more today so let's dive right in. there are effectively 13 days left for china and the u.s. to nail down the details of a phase one deal in order to avoid yet another escalation in the trade war that has already cost consumers and companies millions of dollars in lost productivity u.s. president donald trump has threatened another wave of terrorist by december 15th that will hit for the 1st time the supply chain of the consumer goods if a resolution is not met while merely a few weeks ago we had messaging of a phase one being close to done but now the optimism seems to be premature the u.s. in true trump fashion of exerting maximum pressure and utilizing leverage to try to get what he wants has now played the hong kong card and signed off on the legislation rather than folding this move backfired infuriating beijing. and is now stalling for their