Canada re-ups dispute settlement efficiencies; members deadlocked on Appellate Body seats
Canada has followed up on its year-old initiative to streamline dispute settlement at the World Trade Organization via the voluntary adoption of best practices by introducing four new proposals. Geneva sources say those proposals, and backing from other members, could signal confidence and a desire to improve the dispute settlement body while delays and other issues persist. One of those issues is the inability of WTO members to coalesce around a process for filling two Appellate Body seats, one of...