The U.S. isn't bound by decisions made at the World Trade Organization, President Donald Trump's administration said in outlining a new trade agenda that promises to root out unfair practices by foreign countries.

America plans to defend its "national sovereignty over trade policy," the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said in an annual document laying out the president's trade agenda. Under the terms of its entry into the WTO, the U.S. didn't abandon its trade rights, according to the document, obtained by Bloomberg News and entitled "2017 Trade Policy Agenda."

"Given this history, it is important to recall also that Congress had made clear that Americans are not directly subject to WTO decisions," according to the trade office, which takes the lead in negotiating trade deals. Trump's pick to lead the USTR, lawyer Robert Lighthizer, hasn't yet been confirmed.