Outside voices: Bacchus says U.S. must stay, and lead, in Geneva

Outside voices: Bacchus says U.S. must stay, and lead, in Geneva

James Bacchus, the former chair of the World Trade Organizations’ Appellate Body who has also served in Congress, is out this week with an ardent and lengthy defense of the WTO – saying that while it needs reform, it needs the U.S., too. Bacchus, writing for the Cato Institute (where he is an adjunct scholar), notes early on that some in Congress want the U.S. to withdraw from the WTO – a move unlikely to succeed, but one made amid a swirl of U.…