U.S. policy could threaten international trade, aides warn

( IHT ) - In a break from years of unwavering public faith in the United States, top officials at the World Trade Organization are worried that the Bush administration’s go-it-alone policy is threatening international trade.

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In the past months the United States has compiled one of the worst records for violating trade rules and has single-handedly blocked an agreement to provide medicines for the world’s poorest nations

I know that the question has been posed here numerous times in the past but it obviously needs to be asked again, “Just how far is the U.S. willing to go in isolating itself from the rest of the world?”