EU, China, others declare intent to negotiate interim WTO Appellate solution

The European Union, China, Canada, Mexico and more than a dozen other countries plan to negotiate an interim appellate process at the World Trade Organization now that the Appellate Body has been rendered unusable, they announced on Jan. 24. The U.S. did not join them. The Appellate Body lost its quorum needed to hear new appeals in early December after the U.S. opposed a final attempt to address its concerns through a draft decision put up for adoption at a...