Trump's China tariff plan would be the death of the WTO
Stephen Olson is senior adjunct fellow with the Pacific Forum, a foreign policy research institute based in Honolulu, Hawaii, and a visiting lecturer and nonresident fellow with the Clayton Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Donald Trump has indicated his intention to impose a 60% tariff on all imports from China and a 10% "universal baseline" tariff on imports from elsewhere should he recapture the U.S. presidency when Americans go to the polls in November.