Wolff on WTO Appellate Body crisis: Members likely to avoid 'Armageddon'

Editor's note: This story has been updated to note that Wolff suggested members could find a way to work through the “chaos” that could result from the expected shutdown of the Appellate Body next month. NEW YORK -- Alan Wolff, the World Trade Organization's deputy director-general, this week said a shutdown of Geneva’s appeals system, expected next month, was unlikely to spark “pure chaos,” as some have feared. If WTO members can come up with workarounds, he said during...