Forget that the dispute process is already overextended, underfunded, and in need of repair (notably, in the case of the compliance provisions of Articles 21 and 22).
Internal politics and a weak regional dispute resolution process (through MERCOSUR) have led to a trade war.
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We expect arbitration to be a more efficient and speedier dispute resolution process than trying a matter before a jury years down the line in the San Francisco Superior Court.
"It is unfortunate that the New York Attorney General has chosen this route rather than engage in a constructive dialogue through the established dispute resolution process, " spokeswoman Vickee Adams said.
It has not led to a rash of lawsuits: Of the 197 employee complaints since April 1997, 75% have been resolved early in the dispute resolution process -- and no employee has gone to court.
Most notably, a Supreme Court ruling last year strengthened companies' ability to use mandatory arbitration, a dispute-resolution process designed to keep consumer cases out of court.
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So the WTO I think has been a very good forum for ensuring that behavior has a mechanism for being dealt with in the dispute-resolution process.
With growing evidence that the dispute-resolution process is working, ICANN's board will almost certainly approve a plan at the Yokohama meeting to start taking applications for new domains.
The next stage is the vote-counting, a process vulnerable to dispute.
Signatories to UNCLOS are obliged to go through an arbitration process in the event of a dispute with another party and to accept the resulting settlement, UNCLOS says on its website.
There isn't a formal appeals process, but if the first dispute is rejected, consumers can "absolutely" protest again to the credit bureau or lender and send more information, says Kareem Rogers, Equifax's global consumer and business services leader.
The new teams were originally due to be unveiled on 7 March but the process was delayed by two weeks after a dispute over financial clauses.
The manner in which human beings tussle with one another over power, property and prestige is not much different in adulthood than it is in middle school and the process steps are the same even when the dispute is on an entirely different scale.
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The dispute centers on a new value-added tax that China is in the process of imposing on a wide range of goods and services.
The aim of this Lobby is control of the policy process through the exercise of a veto over the appointment of people who dispute the wisdom of its views... and the exclusion of any and all options for decision by Americans and our government other than those that it favors.
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