WTO dispute settlement director: U.S. must provide clarity on Appellate Body fixes

The United States must be clearer about how it wants to reform the World Trade Organization Appellate Body if members are to have any chance at amending how the body functions and ending the U.S.-driven impasse over filling vacant seats, Director of the WTO Legal Affairs Division John Adank said on Wednesday. “The question that I think a number [of members] are asking is 'What does the U.S. actually want to do with this system?'” Adank -- speaking in a...