Jesus Seade, the Mexican candidate to lead the World Trade Organisation, has pitched himself as the “trade expert” who can bring both the US and China back to the negotiating table. This is a deep-dive interview with Finbarr Bermingham, probing his thoughts on the US-China trade war, the phase one trade deal and what Seade learned from leading the talks that saw the North American Free Trade Agreement revamped as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), due to take force on July 1.