WTO appellate body has been frozen
The US essentially shut down the WTO dispute resolution system this year by blocking appointments.
However the EU, China and 15 other countries have now signed onto a separate system of dispute resolution system.
Lost in all the Davos news on Wednesday was a comment from Trump saying that he will unveil "very dramatic" action for the WTO and had invested Director General Roberto Azevedo to Washington "sometime next week or maybe the week after."
