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Icon for tass.comTASS · Dec 27, 2021

WTO is 'paralyzed,' dispute settlement body does not work — Lavrov

Operations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have been paralyzed because its dispute settlement body does ... tricks," started preventing the process of appointing employees to positions ...
Icon for www.cfr.orgCfr.org · Jan 14, 2020

A Reset of the World Trade Organization's Appellate Body

Senior Fellow for Trade and International Political Economy The World Trade Organization (WTO ... dispute settlement system to replace the previous General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT ...
Icon for www.asahi.com朝日新聞社 · Mar 23, 2024

EDITORIAL: Reform of WTO key to regaining dispute-settling mechanism

The divide between the United States and the Japan-Europe camp over reform of the dispute settlement ... the WTO’s reform are not limited to dispute resolution. The body’s rule-making process ...
Icon for www.rieti.go.jpRIETI独立行政法人経済産業研究所 · Dec 4, 2017

The Implementation Issue under the WTO Dispute Settlement Procedure

The juridification of the dispute settlement procedure under the World Trade Organization (WTO) has extended the effective rule of law into the realm of international trade. Over the years, however, there has been a series of cases in which a losing ...
Reuters · 28d

China files complaint with WTO over new US tariffs

China said it had opened a formal complaint against the new U.S. tariffs with the World Trade Organization on Friday, saying the measures violate WTO rules and requesting consultations.
Icon for www.scmp.comscmp.com · Mar 18, 2025

US says ready to confer with China, Canada on WTO disputes

Both countries have since introduced retaliatory tariffs in moves that Washington raised in the WTO documents circulated on Tuesday. “It is specious for China to invoke dispute settlement for an ...
Investing.com Australia · 8d

Guatemala and Peru reach agreement over agricultural trade dispute

Investing.com -- Guatemala and Peru have reached a resolution in their trade dispute concerning agricultural products, according to an announcement made by the World Trade Organization (WTO) on its website Thursday.
Icon for www.financialexpress.comThe Financial Express · 12d

India, US open bilateral channel on steel, aluminium tariffs

The request for consultations marks the first formal step in the WTO dispute resolution process, aimed at reaching a bilateral settlement. If talks for mutual settlement fail, India can escalate ...
Icon for tass.comTASS · Mar 4, 2025

China complaints to WTO due to new US tariffs

TASS/. China has engaged the dispute settlement mechanism of the World Trade Organization (WTO) due to the increase of duties on Chinese goods by the United States, the China’s Ministry of ...
Icon for www.china.org.cnChina Internet Information Center · Mar 28, 2025

China to advance follow-up procedures of WTO case after US accepts tariff consultations

case against the United States for imposing additional tariffs on Chinese goods after the United States agreed to consultations under the WTO dispute settlement mechanism, a Ministry of Commerce ...
Icon for www.msn.comMSN · Feb 4, 2025

Amid Trump trade tensions, WTO remains crippled arbiter

China said Tuesday that it would file a complaint with the WTO over ... The process for resolving a dispute at the Geneva-based global trade body goes through several stages.
Icon for www.swissinfo.chSwissinfo · Dec 11, 2019

Switzerland pledges to defend under-fire WTO

The WTO’s dispute settlement process, including the Appellate Body, was meant to establish that written rules, not arbitrary power, governed global trade. But the process has proved cumbersome.