The 11th WTO Ministerial Conference didn’t meet the high hopes of many participants. The EU called it a “missed opportunity” after agreements on agricultural subsidies and intellectual property safeguards were not reached. That didn’t make it a complete failure, with 70 countries (including the U.S.) agreeing to make further progress on e-commerce. The continued engagement of the U.S. is important given concerns about a withdrawal by the Trump administration. However, the WTO may be fracturing into a “plurilateral” organization as a result of the lack of progress. The e-commerce arrangem...