Russia's WTO 'national security' victory cuts both ways for Trump
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS APRIL 5, 2019 / 9:55 AM / UPDATED 7 HOURS AGO
Russia's WTO 'national security' victory cuts both ways for Trump
Tom Miles
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Russia won a dispute about national security at the World Trade Organization on Friday, in a ruling over a Ukrainian transit dispute that may also affect global automobile tariffs that could be imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
The WTO panel ruling, the first ever on the right to a national security exemption from the global trade rules, awarded Russia a legal victory because it had successfully invoked national security.
The panel also confirmed the WTOs right to review national security claims, denting U.S. claims that national security was not subject to review, and said any such claim should be objectively true, relating to weapons, war, fissionable materials or an emergency in international relations.
An emergency in international relations would, therefore, appear to refer generally to a situation of armed conflict, or of latent armed conflict, or of heightened tension or crisis, or of general instability engulfing or surrounding a state, it said.
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