The World Trade Organization's entire mission is overseeing global trade, but US President Donald Trump's tariff offensive has left it adrift.

Cedric Dupont of the Geneva Graduate Institute, an international relations professor and an expert in trade policies, law and the WTO, told AFP that Trump's moves had put the global trade body centre-stage but powerless to act.

Dupont: "The basic idea of the WTO, to guarantee predictability in world trade, is totally ruined by Donald Trump's attitude. Everyone is starting to wonder what is the point of having invested so much time in trade negotiations.

"It finds itself somewhat in the eye of the storm. The people working at the WTO must feel quite helpless and a little........

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