Insights and Stories on Appellate Body

U.S. wants WTO dispute system fixed by 2024

Jan. 26, 2023 at 7:40 pm CST

Geneva | Reuters — The United States is entering a third phase of talks with countries to reform the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) hobbled trade dispute arbitration system and aims for it to be “fully functioning” by the end of 2024, the U.S. ambassador to the WTO told Reuters on […]

WTO creates panel in China-Australia barley row

May. 31, 2021 at 3:36 am CDT

By Reuters

Canada hails new WTO chief

Feb. 22, 2021 at 8:07 pm CST

By D.C. Fraser

Canada, EU, China, others agree on temporary fix to WTO crisis

Jan. 25, 2020 at 11:41 am CST

By Luke Baker philip-blenkinsop

U.S. seals demise of WTO appeals bench, trade officials say

Dec. 9, 2019 at 2:53 pm CST

By stephanie-nebehay

WTO tussles over hard stop or phase-out of appeals system

Dec. 3, 2019 at 5:09 pm CST

Geneva | Reuters — The World Trade Organization (WTO) battled on Tuesday over whether to bring its Appellate Body to an abrupt halt or allow its adjudicators to settle a handful of pending cases, according to trade officials present at a meeting on the subject. The Trump administration has for […]

By Reuters

U.S. seen likely to win in effort to shut down WTO’s appeals court

Oct. 5, 2018 at 7:48 pm CDT

Geneva | Reuters — The United States is likely to succeed in shutting down the World Trade Organization’s supreme court because other WTO members are powerless to stop it, diplomats, lawyers and officials said at a conference in Geneva on Friday. The United States has blocked appointments of judges to […]

By Tom Miles

NAFTA countries debate COOL harm at WTO

Sep. 17, 2015 at 8:43 pm CDT

Canada and Mexico have made their case before a World Trade Organization arbitration panel on how much tariff revenge they’re allowed to impose on U.S. goods over country-of-origin labelling (COOL). The WTO “has ruled four times that the U.S.’s COOL rules are discriminatory,” Canadian Pork Council chairman Rick Bergmann said […]

By Staff

WTO panel rejects final U.S. appeal on COOL

May. 18, 2015 at 12:28 pm CDT

Canada is set to ask the World Trade Organization to allow a long list of retaliatory tariffs against U.S. agrifoods and other goods, after a WTO panel shot down Washington’s final defense of its country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law on meat. The WTO Appellate Body on Monday released its report on […]

By Dave Bedard

WTO appeal panel to rule on COOL by mid-May at latest

Mar. 5, 2015 at 5:27 pm CST

A World Trade Organization panel, after hearing the U.S. government’s appeal in defense of mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) for meat, now expects to file its decision no later than May 18. The WTO Appellate Body, which on Feb. 17 heard the U.S. appeal and rebuttals from Canada and Mexico, served […]