President Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” (BAHA) Executive Order may be challenged at the WTO by 0 countries and the European Union under the “Government Procurement Agreement”. The administration is due to receive policy recommendations for implementing BAHA by November 24. Cutting government purchases of overseas services, which totaled $22.1 billion in the past 12 months may be one route to doing so. The U.S. government ran a “services deficit” of $2.9 billion in the past year, so a 13.1% redirection of spending would wipe that out. It would only cut the overall goods-and-servic...
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