U.S. opposes Appellate Body decision at WTO General Council; EU laments ‘unprecedented’ situation

GENEVA -- The U.S. on Monday opposed the adoption of a World Trade Organization General Council draft decision aimed at forestalling the imminent paralysis of the Appellate Body, arguing that the U.S. had engaged substantially but did not believe other members had done so. The European Union, meanwhile, called out the U.S. for not putting forward “any single proposal or counterproposal of its own,” according to a copy of Ambassador João Aguiar Machado’s remarks from the first day of the...