TY - GEN
AU - Daniels, Laura von
AU - Dröge, Susanne
AU - Bögner, Alexandra
AU - Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit
TI - Ways out of the WTO's December crisis: how to prevent the open global trade order from unravelling
KW - WTO
KW - Handel
KW - Weltordnung
KW - internationale Beziehungen
KW - Außenhandel
KW - Konfliktregelung
KW - politische Reform
KW - GATT
KW - internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen
KW - USA
KW - China
KW - EU
KW - Internationale Handelsordnung
KW - Institutionelle Entwicklung internationalen Akteurs
KW - Entwicklung der Aufgaben internationalen Akteurs
KW - Handelskonflikt
KW - Haltung von Akteuren zu Einzelfragen
KW - Internationale wirtschaftliche Dominanz/Abhängigkeit
KW - Rivalität von Staaten
PY - 2019
N2 - Veröffentlichungsversion
N2 - begutachtet
N2 - The World Trade Organization (WTO) is facing the biggest crisis since its inception in 1995. From 11 December, the committee that deals with WTO members’ appeals, the Appellate Body, will be left with only one judge. New appointments have been blocked by the United States. This will incapacitate the Body because the minimum require­ment for any decision is three judges. What seems to be a mere procedural issue will result in major disruptions for international trade relations and might ultimately lead to the unravelling of the existing global trade order. The EU and like-minded part­ners have three options to cope with the situation and to safeguard the WTO’s role in trade dispute settlement. The EU and its partners could either endure the stale­mate while aiming for a broader WTO reform. Or the EU could strive for an alter­native appeals mechanism within the WTO, as an interim solution. The third option would be to seek dispute settlements outside of the WTO. None of the options comes without risk of failure since there is uncertainty about the US endgame, and each move could deliver proof for the US that the WTO no longer serves its interests.
BT - SWP Comment ; Bd. 46/2019
CY - Berlin
UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
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