The French businessman was Director-General of the WTO from 2005–2013, and European commissioner for trade for five years from 1999 – 2004.

Ed Butler speaks to Pascal Lamy about the trading relationships between the US and China, and the US and the EU, what a second Trump presidency might mean for world trade.

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Producer: Amber Mehmood

(Picture: Pascal Lamy, photo taken in Paris, November 2022. Credit: Getty Images)