London | The World Trade Organisation has waded into the middle of the US-China trade war, with a ruling that President Donald Trump broke international trade rules with his 2018 tariffs on $US234 billion ($321 billion) of Chinese exports.
The Trump administration immediately struck back, saying the ruling showed up the ineffectiveness of the WTO, and vindicated the US President's four-year trade war as the only way to combat Chinese trade malfeasance.
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Hans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.
