国际商会ICC：2025年仅限民主国家的贸易协定的影响报告（英文版）

This note provides a preliminary assessment of some of the potential implications for the United States (US) of recent proposals to establish a successor to the World Trade Organization that is open only to liberal democracies. 2. This concept was, most recently, put forward by former US Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer who wrote in a New York Times essay that “[c]ountries with democratic governments and mostly free economies should come together and create a new trade regime. This s