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Saturday, April 26, 2025
The ‘Donald Trump effect’ is being played out in full in the World Trade Organization as tensions over trade remedies and the dispute settlement bodies rise. This week WTO members are gathering in a series of meetings on trade remedies and dispute settlement. The US continues to bloc the …
At a dispute settlement body meeting on Friday (29 September 2017) at the WTO’s headquarters in Geneva, there was no sign of Washington relenting in its drive to block the nomination process of three new Appellate Body members after one mandate lapsed, another is set to expire, and one judge …
A rift between a large group of leading World Trade Organization members and the United States deepened on Friday (15 September 2017) as an informal dispute settlement body meeting ended with no agreement on the appointment of three Appellate Body members. Washington is blocking the appointments of successors to …
The latest Appellate Body report confirms that it has jurisdiction over expired measures when these are annulled or lapse during a dispute settlement proceeding in the World Trade Organization. It also rebuffs once more the EU for not properly disclosing information to the foreign companies it investigates in trade defence …
The WTO’s Appellate Body issued a report that overturned a November 2016 ruling regarding a case Brussels brought against Washington on subsidies in favour of the the aerospace giant Boeing. The ruling comes at a critical time for the future of the Appellate Body in Geneva. At this very …
When the EU decided not to renew ‘countervailing duties’ on imports of polyethylene telephtalate from Pakistan in September 2015 that had been in place for a decade, the South Asian government initially considered withdrawing a complaint it had filed a few months earlier against these measures in the WTO. …
The EU and China are overtly wrangling over how to handle trade defence cases under World Trade Organization rules. The WTO released working documents today that have been circulating among members of the body’s working group on rules that showcase how intense the disagreements currently run in the organisation over subsidy …
Updated at 19:30 CET. A WTO compliance ruling released on 9 June 2017 has induced both Brussels and Washington to claim victory over a dispute involving subsidies to US aerospace company Boeing. Some experts reached by Borderlex see this latest development as being only one episode in an already twelve-year-old “proxy war” …
If you believed the fate of the EU’s biodiesel antidumping duties was sealed after the WTO appellate body’s ruling on a case brought by Argentina and a European Court of Justice ruling annulling these measures in the autumn 2016, stand corrected. The saga goes on. This week, Indonesia filed a complaint in …
The WTO’s dispute settlement panel has broadly endorsed a claim brought against the EU by China regarding a tariff rate quota extension for chicken. In 2012, the EU extended its WTO quotas to Thailand and Brazil, two major exporters of poultry. China, whose exports to the EU had increased significantly …
