Lighthizer: ‘No one’s really missed’ the Appellate Body

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Thursday claimed that one year after the U.S. successfully handicapped the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body, “nobody cares” about its demise. “We have taken these steps at the WTO to stop the Appellate Body. And by the way, it’s been a year -- no one’s really missed it. No one’s missed it at all. It’s like, “Oh, the Appellate Body” -- nobody cares,” he said during the Milken Institute’s Asia Summit . The U.S.,...