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Swordsmyth
05-09-2018, 01:29 AM
The new U.S. ambassador to the World Trade Organization told the WTO's membership on Tuesday that something had gone "terribly wrong" with judges at the world body and that China's arguments showed Beijing was living in a fantasy. Addressing the WTO's General Council for the first time, Dennis Shea said the WTO's rules had substantial value and the rules had "generally contributed" to global economic stability.
But he said there was a "steadily worsening rupture of trust" by the Appellate Body -- the judges who form what is effectively the supreme court of world trade, and whose appointments the United States has been blocking.
"Something has gone terribly wrong in this system when those charged with adjudicating the rules are so consistently disregarding those very rules," Shea said, according to a copy of his remarks provided to Reuters.
The judges had interpreted the WTO agreements to reach judgments that the WTO's member countries never agreed to and had expanded its own capacity to write new rules, he said.
As an example of judicial rule-breaking, he cited delays in legal rulings, which are supposed to come within 90 days. They are routinely late -- the result, many experts say, of ever-more complicated disputes piling up in a congested system.

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