Making trade just, responsive

China spearheads efforts to reorient the WTO amid a rising tide of unfair protectionism

President Donald Trump-led US administration may be fond of trade tariffs and protectionist measures, but how anachronistic such an approach in the age of the World Trade Organization is, becomes starkly evident in Port Elizabeth.

On the outskirts of South Africa's shipping hub, machines at busy manufacturing facilities create a robust hum that is as manly as the products they create: all kinds of trucks, cars and other customized commercial vehicles.