Inside U.S. Trade - 01/24/2020
Azevêdo ‘100 percent sure’ WTO dispute settlement will survive, but must change
The head of the World Trade Organization is “100 percent sure” the body’s dispute settlement mechanism -- hobbled by a nonfunctioning Appellate Body -- will survive, but likely not in its pre-paralysis form. “I am 100 percent sure it will survive. I have no doubts about that whatsoever,” WTO Director General Roberto Azevêdo said during an international trade panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “But it will change, that’s also the point. So, it will survive,...