Author: Fahrettin Sumer

Since Donald Trump retook the presidency in January 2025, his administration has reignited concerns about the future of the liberal world trade system – a framework the United States has shaped and sustained for eight decades. Trump’s tariff policies on a wide range of countries, including regional partners like Canada and Mexico, have sparked fears not only for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s (USMCA) free trade system but also for the broader global trade order, governed and adjudicated by the World Trade Organization (WTO). Are we on the brink of seeing this system collapse under the weight of escalating trade disputes?…