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October 4, 2024

Business, pro-trade groups propose fixes to WTO Appellate Body

By Anshu Siripurapu  / December 9, 2019 at 9:16 AM
A coalition of U.S. business and free trade advocacy groups has put forward a proposal designed to address U.S. concerns with the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body ahead of a likely paralysis of the body beginning this week. “America’s economic interests will be harmed if there is no internationally agreed upon mechanism for combatting unfair trade practices of other nations,” more than 20 groups wrote in a Dec. 6 letter to President Trump . “Now is the time to put...

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