The “Trump Spherical” of commerce negotiations, as Jamieson Greer, America’s commerce consultant, calls it, was meant to reassert American primacy. Peter Navarro, a longtime adviser to Donald Trump, even advised that the president deserved a Nobel prize in economics for displaying how the world’s largest market can bend international commerce to its will. The White Home’s guess is that dismantling the previous order, as soon as policed—nonetheless fitfully—by the World Commerce Organisation, will usher in a brand new one with America at its centre.