Countries can appeal against the panel's ruling. But the WTO's Appellate Body, composed of seven specialists in international law and trade, has not been able to handle any new cases since ...

Winds are also changing in trade policy. As they get rougher and more unpredictable, the much-criticised multilateral trade regime of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has so far proved surprisingly ...

"The WTO can't hurt him, because the appellate body is paralysed: there's nothing that's going to be legally binding. I think he's pretty comfortable with that." ...

That is because the WTO’s Appellate Body, its supreme court, hasn’t functioned since late 2019, when the U.S. blocked the appointment of new judges to the panel. China is the dominant player ...

But the victory would be unlikely to bring Beijing relief because the WTO's Appellate Body has been largely inoperable for years, as the US has blocked the appointment of appellate judges over ...

But then the Trump administration would appeal the decision before the WTO's Appellate Body which has been non-functional for years. The WTO's dispute settlement system was once described as its ...

Fabrice Coffrini/Reuters WTO members confounded expectations last week by concluding a deal on fisheries subsidies, the first major multilateral agreement in nearly a decade. But the trade body is ...

The Appellate Body, essentially the highest court within the WTO’s dispute settlement system, has basically not functioned since late 2019. This is because the United States has blocked the ...