特朗普團隊尋求繞開WTO爭端解決機制
The Trump administration is exploring alternatives to taking trade disputes to the World Trade Organisation in what would amount to the first step away from a system that Washington helped to establish more than two decades ago.
特朗普(Trump)政府正在探索如何繞開世界貿易組織(WTO)來解決貿易爭端，此舉相當於朝着擺脫美國20多年前幫助建立的體系邁出了第一步。Incoming officials have asked the US Trade Representative’s office to draft a list of the legal mechanisms that Washington could use to level trade sanctions unilaterally against China and other countries.
數名候任官員已要求美國貿易代表辦公室(Office of the US Trade Representative)起草一份清單，列出華盛頓方面可用來對中國及其他國家實施單邊貿易制裁的法律機制。
Their goal, people briefed on the request told the Financial Times, is to find ways that the new administration could circumvent the WTO’s dispute system.
獲悉這項要求具體內容的人士告訴英國《金融時報》，這些官員的目標是，爲新政府找到可以繞開WTO爭端解決機制的辦法。
Since being established in 1995 the WTO has become the pre-eminent venue for resolving trade fights between member countries, which its proponents say has helped prevent destructive trade wars.
自1995年成立以來，WTO已成爲解決成員國之間貿易衝突的主要平臺。WTO支持者表示，該機構幫助防止了多次具有毀滅性的貿易戰。While the US would remain a WTO member under the Trump administration’s plans, the officials’ move reflects the sceptical view many of them have of an institution they see as a plodding internationalist bureaucracy biased against US interests.
按照特朗普政府的計劃，美國將保留WTO成員國身份。儘管如此，上述官員的舉動反映出，他們中的許多人對該機構持懷疑看法。在他們眼中，WTO是一個對美國利益抱有偏見的、慢節奏的國際主義官僚機構。It also illustrates how Donald Trump, who has vowed to pursue an “America First” foreign policy, is setting out to test a global economic order that his predecessors helped to build and defend.
此舉還顯示出，發誓要奉行“美國優先”(America First)對外政策的唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)，將以何種方式考驗其多位前任幫助建立和維護的全球經濟秩序。“The World Trade Organisation is a disaster,” the president said during last year’s campaign.
這位美國總統在去年選戰期間曾表示：“WTO是個災難。”
