United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2003-07-30 monographic deposited born digital 128 p. GA 1.13:GAO-03-824 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-824 P0b002ee18037214d f:d03824 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-824 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-824 GAO-03-824 Dispute settlement Foreign trade agreements International agreements International organizations International trade International trade regulation Foreign trade policies Other Written Product A07769

World Trade Organization (WTO) members rely on trade remedies in the form of duties or other import restrictions to protect their industries from injury due to unfair foreign trade practices or unexpected import surges. There is congressional concern that the WTO, created in 1995 to administer trade rules, is interfering with this ability. There is also congressional concern that the WTO is not treating the United States fairly in resolving trade remedy disputes. A congressional requester asked GAO to identify trends in WTO trade remedy disputes since 1995, including the outcomes of these disputes and how they affected members' ability to impose trade remedies. The requester also asked GAO to discuss the standards of review that the WTO applies when ruling on trade remedy disputes and to present U.S. agencies' and legal experts' views on the WTO's application of these standards and related trade remedy issues. In their comments on a draft of this report, the Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission stated that the report needed to put more emphasis on U.S. agencies' concerns about the potential adverse impact of WTO rulings on the U.S.'s use of trade remedies. The U.S. Trade Representative provided only technical comments on the report. GAO modified the report as appropriate. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-824/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-824.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-824/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-824.pdf GAO-03-824 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-824 Other Written Product GAO-03-824; World Trade Organization: Standard of Review and Impact of Trade Remedy Rulings; Dispute settlement Foreign trade agreements International agreements International organizations International trade International trade regulation Foreign trade policies Title 467 Section 837 Title 467 Section 842 467 U.S.C. 837 467 U.S.C. 842 Volume 108 Page 4815 108 Stat. 4815 Volume 116 Page 933 Volume 116 Page 1016 116 Stat. 933 116 Stat. 1016 Public Law 103-465 Public Law 107-210