Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 48

Reverse China's entry into the World Trade Organization

Never delivered
“[paraphrase] China's entry into the WTO was a disaster and should be undone.”
Promised
, Trade policy speech, Monessen, Pennsylvania
Re-promised
5 times with a fresh deadline
Topic
Trade & tariffs
Era
2016 campaign

What happened

China remained a WTO member throughout the term. The administration blocked appointments to the WTO Appellate Body, paralyzing it in December 2019, but took no action to remove China from the organization. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.

Sources

  1. Reverse China's entry into the World Trade Organization PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter, Jul 15, 2020