The United States is set to come under scrutiny Friday on day two of the World Trade Organization's ministerial conference, with Washington wanting to shake up the multilateral trade system.
In the corridors of the WTO gathering in Cameroon's capital Yaounde, which runs until Sunday, a lot of the talk is about the United States.
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