Which of the following is a correct statement
about either the current WTO dispute
settlement process or the old GATT
settlement process?
In the old GATT dispute settlement process,
before the WTO was created, 100 percent of the
contracting parties to the GATT had to agree on
a ruling before it could be implemented. Even
the country that lost the dispute, and was going
to be punished, had to agree! Clearly, this made
it difficult for any country actually to implement
Panel rulings.
Both of the statements listed here are correct
answers to this question.
In the WTO dispute settlement process,
countries that do not like a Panel's ruling can
appeal to the Appellate Body, but if the
Appellate Body upholds the initial ruling, that
ruling can only be overturned if 100 percent of
the WTO members vote to overturn it. This is
called \"reverse consensus,\" and is very unlikely
to occur. This means that unlike the GATT's
rulings, WTO rulings are much more likely
actually to be implemented.