The WTO has previously allowed such retaliation, although nobody has ever followed through with such steps.
The WTO has rules against export subsidies for manufactured products, and interprets them broadly.
Another reality is that the WTO has expanded its membership.
Though the WTO has for the most part focused on reducing import restrictions, over the last decade there has been a growth in the use of unilateral export restrictions.
The WTO has come under heavy fire for decades now, not the least because of its failure to get member states to agree on the Doha Round of agricultural trade.
The WTO has ruled that for over forty years the European government owners of Airbus and its later formed parent the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) have been have been undermining that wellspring and harming the U.S. aviation industry.
The WTO has set a deadline of July for ministers to agree upon an outline deal, aware that after that, the US will be focused upon forthcoming elections: and some fear if this window of opportunity is missed it could be months and possibly years before another trade deal can be done.
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This view has been supported by the WTO, which has declared the banana tariffs illegal.
"Neither WTO not GATT has direct effect in EU law", nor is the Common Agricultural Policy relevant.
WTO, but has also made it clear that it sees bilateral or regional free-trade agreements as a legitimate alternative.
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.
Chinese law schools are funneling students through WTO academic programs, and the government has been eager to foster WTO expertise.
When the current expansion of free-trade accords has covered an overwhelming percentage of world trade, it may be possible for the WTO to fix the system, so no nation has preferential bias with one or another trading partner over others countries.
Merges says the WTO lawsuit shows the United States has run out of patience.
The EC has appealed the ruling against it and has filed its own WTO large commercial aircraft case against claimed U.S. subsidies.
As China gears up to celebrate 10 years since it joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), Beijing says it has met all the pledges it made.
And even when China has more highly trained WTO lawyers, they still need the experience of winning and losing WTO cases, which are small in number each year.
WTO's new boss, has made helping developing countries his priority.
The Obama administration has not made any decision yet about consulting the WTO on the matter, but the House Ways and Means Committee, which has oversight of U.S. trade deals, is pushing for it.
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WTO's pugnacious new boss, has started the long fight to win over sceptics on globalisation.
Last year, the US has dragged India to the WTO challenging its ban on imports of American poultry.
Mr Putin, initially eager for Russia to be in the big international clubs, has come to see some WTO demands as a politically motivated nuisance.
The US has also written to the WTO criticising Antigua's plans.
That its regional rival, China, which has been a member of the WTO for almost 10 years only adds fuel to the fire.
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In the aftermath of the Battle of Seattle, no single objection to the WTO may stand out any better than it has before.
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Beijing has denied the allegations in the WTO case, saying that it enforced the quotas to ensure there was no environmental damage caused due to excessive mining.
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