Picking Favorites | Center for Strategic and International Studies

Picking Favorites | Center for Strategic and International Studies: Like many professional fields, trade has a special language all its own. However, unlike some that use actual words, trade is a language of acronyms: WTO, GSP, AD/CVD, TAA, TPA, TTIP, USMCA, and on and on. One of the more interesting ones, and the subject of today's column, is MFN, which stands for "most favored nation."