Shea: No Appellate Body solution until U.S. ‘confident’ key issues are being addressed

The U.S. ambassador to the World Trade Organization signaled on Friday that the U.S. was unlikely to agree to any Appellate Body resolution at the General Council meeting next week, reaffirming the Trump administration's stance that members must first identify the “underlying problems.” “We have asked repeatedly, if the words of the [Dispute Settlement Understanding] are already clear, then why have the practices of the Appellate Body strayed so far?” U.S. Ambassador to the WTO Dennis Shea said at...