Washington has, at last, officially broken its silence by publishing a report justifying its blocking of the WTO dispute settlement system’s Appellate Body (AB) on Tuesday, 11 February.
Written by the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), the text is primarily a (long) list of grievances in which Washington highlights the extent of the harm caused by what it sees as the AB straying from its mission. The [Appellate] Body “has added to U.S. obligations and diminished U.S. rights by...