WTO Dispute Settlement Reform Still Up in the Air

Posted 1/19/24

The facilitator of the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement reform, Marco Tulio Molina Tejeda, circulated the fourth draft of the confidential ministerial decision, our correspondent writes.

This draft remains silent on the appeal/review mechanism and the restoration of the Appellate Body. It introduces terms like “adjudicators,” absent in the current dispute settlement understanding, according to sources.

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