Alongside an informal World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting in Davos on 23 January, 17 WTO member states agreed on a two-step interim process to address the paralysis of the Appellate Body (AB).
Since December, the European Union and a few other states, including Canada and Norway, have been trying to get around the paralysis of the WTO's AB by proposing an alternative system pending a systemic solution to this blockage (see EUROPE B12387A23).
The Interim Agreement identified at...