♠ Posted by Emmanuel in Litigation,Trade
at 11/22/2019 03:03:00 PM
Meet (trade) Killer BOB.
To those following international trade, it's been no secret that the United States has been blocking the appointment of appellate judges to the WTO's Dispute Settlement Mechanism--international trade court, if you will. Without having judges to hear appeals on different trade-related rulings at the WTO, a critical component of the organization will be terminally wounded--its legal one.
With an avowed isolationist like Trump as the US leader--and a US trade representative with a similar view of the world in Robert Lighthizer--this outcome was perhaps inevitable after the 2016 elections:
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