The WTO Process will be slow Sample Clauses

The WTO Process will be slow. It is claimed that the new process, by setting a variety for disputes of timelines, will speed up liberalization. Is that true? Even the agreed-upon time schedule applies only to the WTO segment of a dispute. But there may be lengthy procedures in advance in each of the major countries. The WTO is an organization of governments, not a civil court. Unlike bringing their grievance to a national court, Companies must rely on their governments to put forward their case in what is essentially an intergovernmental procedure. The firm must convince their national governments to back its claim and then present it to the other governments, the arbitration panel, etc. This means that 1) the government will have to conduct its own investigation into the complaint; and 2) it will next have to make sure that its support of firm A will not negatively impact the trade position or well being of another national firm B; 3) it may even need to make a ruling on whether the firm is in fact a national firm or a foreign country; 4) it will have to decide whether the case is worth spending national resources on a protracted WTO battle. In the US the government has made it already clear that it will not take all complaints to the panel but only especially grievous incidents against a single signatory to the overall GATT agreement (not necessarily in the telecommunications sector). All of this means that the dispute resolution process may require a long road to justice for those firms with legitimate complaints. The complexity, uncertainty, and expense of this procedure will serve as a disincentive to use the new procedure.
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