Washington marginalizes the WTO – the consultation is unpopular.
Bacchus 23 James Bacchus was a founding judge and was twice the chairman of the Appellate Body of the WTO. He is a former Member of the Congress of the United States and a former international trade negotiator for the United States “The World Trade Organization: Myths versus Reality” CATO Institute. 9-26-2023 https://www.cato.org/publications/world-trade-organization-myths-versus-reality
A bipartisan majority of lawmakers today see the WTO as bent on undermining U.S. trade laws and unable to discipline China’s hybrid of communism and state capitalism. These claims are also incorrect—but still powerful: the organization has been marginalized in Washington and its rules and rulings ignored, harming the WTO and the member states facing new U.S. trade discrimination, fomenting copycat policies around the world, and in the process, harming the United States itself.