India, China got ‘tremendous advantage’ of developing country status: Trump

Deccanchronicle: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday complained that his country has not been "treated fairly" by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), stating that the United States is not considered a "developing nation" while China and India are, by the global trade body.

"But the World Trade Organisation -- as you know, I've had a dispute running with them for quite a while, because our country hasn't been treated fairly. China is viewed as a developing nation. India is viewed as a developing nation. We're not viewed a developing nation," the US President said while speaking at a press conference, according to a transcript by the White House.

"As far as I'm concerned, we're a developing nation, too. But they got tremendous advantages by the fact that they were considered "developing" and we weren't. And they shouldn't be. But if they are, we are. And we're talking about a whole new structure for the deal, or we'll have to do something," said Trump.

The US President stressed that the WTO has been "very unfair to the United States for many, many years"