Our front page: Philosophy, details cloud Appellate Body outlook

The top stories in this week's issue of Inside U.S. Trade . Appellate Body divide: New reform plan emerges, but U.S. demurs . A World Trade Organization facilitator, charged with coming up with a way forward to resolve issues that threaten to shut down the WTO dispute settlement process, proposed a seven-part plan – including a proposed way to deal with the contentious issue of the degree to which Appellate Board decisions are precedent-setting. The facilitator, New Zealand’s WTO ambassador,...