U.S. Delays Effort to Restore WTO’s Key Decision-Making Power
- U.S. continues to block effort to appoint appellate panelists
- Trump administration paralyzed the dispute forum in 2019
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The U.S. signaled it’s not yet ready to engage in a debate over how to revive the World Trade Organization’s dispute resolution system, which has been hobbled since 2019, until Washington works through President Joe Biden’s transition.
The U.S. delegation to the WTO, in a statement Monday seen by Bloomberg, said it’s “not in a position” to back a proposal on appellate panel members, citing Biden’s inauguration five days ago and the transition to his administration.