"The latest news from The USA is the closure of GM, resulting in massive job losses.

Even after all the subsidies and tariff protections afforded to them by the current US administration, American car manufacturers still can't make cars for a competitive price. Protectionist tariffs have just made the raw materials sourced overseas more expensive.

So, America's competitors now make cheaper cars than the USA. Protectionist policies have actually assisted in the destruction of US auto industry and made American cars uncompetitive. It didn't take that long to happen either. More industries will follow.

America has been seriously disadvantaged in world markets."

Discuss the accuracy of this blog in relation to World Trade and International Business Law, and the doctrine of Comparative Advantage.

1. where did Trump and the US Administration seem to be heading, ie, back to protectionism and if so where does that leave the WTO?

2. what is the role of the WTO and what powers do you think it has? (Read Topic 7)

3. does the WTO make or influence international business law?

4. if the WTO makes or influences IBL, how and in what way?

5. does the direction the US now seems to be going inevitably lead to a head on

collision with the WTO and its policies?

6. Also have a look at You Tube and what both Trump and the current US

7. Administration have been saying and what the WTO position is.

8. Remember that Trump has said the former administration would attempt to stop

9. US manufacturers going off-shore and for those that do, imposing penalties on them by way of higher tariffs. There are political and economic ramifications here but are there also legal ones?

10. The effect of the recent US Election on World Trade and the WTO would make an excellent final paragraph