Twelve members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), including the European Union, are seeking to engage the United States on a reform of the Appellate Body.
The EU continues to work to modernise the WTO, but also to enable it to continue to function (see EUROPE 12098). The dispute settlement function of the multilateral organisation is indeed under threat, as the appointments of its Appellate Body (AB) have been blocked for the past year and a half by the United States...