Tai: Dispute settlement, negotiating reforms ‘intimately linked’ at WTO
Efforts to reform the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement system won’t get far without an overhaul of the WTO negotiating function and should be a process that stems from conversations and not a U.S. proposal, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said on Thursday in a speech outlining the Biden administration’s vision for the WTO. The U.S. has been blocking new appointments to the WTO’s Appellate Body since mid-2017, leaving behind a fractured dispute settlement system in which the appeals stage...